While family businesses have existed for millennia all over the world, it is only in the past few decades that professional consultants have been utilized to help them function more effectively.  This engaging, up to the minute volume explores the varied and complex world of family enterprises as they now exist in the 3rd decade of the 21st century.  Attention is given to the unique factors inherent to family businesses in their attention to perpetuating family values, traditions, loyalties and their legacy to future generations.  Consultants may be drawn from law, finance and accounting, organizational psychology, or family psychology (with its special emphasis on understanding the family relationship system) The book describes methods of assessment and how to effectively report back the results as well as techniques of consulting and provides an invaluable description of what is necessary to be and become a family business consultant.Readers will benefit from explorations ofGiven that over 85% of the businesses in the world, from small to multinational in size and scope are family businesses, the enormous amount of information conveyed in this volume can be  extremely valuable to professional consultants and those in the C Suite (CEO’s, CFO’s, COO’s) in helping businesses operate at maximum efficiency, productivity, satisfaction to all involved and profitability. G. Andrew H. Benjamin, JD, PhD, ABPP Past President, American Academy of Couple & Family PsychologyPast President, American Board (ABPP) of Couple & Family Psychology Clinical Professor of Psychology & Affiliate Professor of Law, University of Washington weiterlesen