Beschreibung

A course in family-business entrepreneurship, taught through a narrative about four frustrated people taking a seminar that changes their lives.

Limited time offer.

In the second book in the Entrepreneurial Edge series, frustrated individuals, immersed in family businesses, enroll in a two-week course on entrepreneurship that will change their lives.

For ten years Mary has been an office manager at her brother's business only to see her younger brother join the company and receive shares while she gets none. Plagued by doubts about her ability to change the culture in the family business or succeed outside it, Mary signs up for a seminar series on family entrepreneurship. A crusty mentor named Sam conducts the seminars in a class that includes three others: a son considering taking over a family business, the owner of a successful company involving her two daughters, and a man with a stormy working relationship with his sister.

The narrative brings us right into the class as Sam cleverly leads all of us to decisions about our future. Anyone interested in entrepreneurship, starting a business, or just managing their career will benefit from the shared experiences of this compelling story.

Watch for Ageless Entrepreneur, arriving May 2015.

Fred Dawkins is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the Olde Hide House, Canada's largest leather goods store. He is a partner in the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The first book in this informative series, Everyday Entrepreneur, was published in 2013. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Contents
Preface 13
Acknowledgements 15
Introduction The Family Brand 17
Chapter One - Duty: A Path of Good Intentions 20
Chapter Two - Sam and the Routine 28
Chapter Three - Coffee and Conversation 40
Chapter Four - Is Leadership Effective? 44
Chapter Five - The Brewhaha Lives Up to the Name 55
Chapter Six - Is Talent Compromised? 59
Chapter Seven - A Less Stormy Night 67
Chapter Eight - The Team Within the Team 72
Chapter Nine - Our Own Teamwork 80
Chapter Ten - Controlled or Controlling? 83
Chapter Eleven - Birthday Blues 91
Chapter Twelve - A Free-For-All 94
Chapter Thirteen - A New Experience 103
Chapter Fourteen - A New Era of Entrepreneurship 108
Chapter Fifteen - The Brewhaha Hits the Road 116
Chapter Sixteen - External Intelligence 119
Chapter Seventeen - Curry and Conversation 128
Chapter Eighteen - The Lecture on Localization 132
Chapter Nineteen - Mexican Asada 144
Chapter Twenty - Succession: Is the Family Business Model in Danger? 148
Chapter Twenty-One - Churrasco Fiasco 156
Chapter Twenty-Two - Dispute Resolution 160
Chapter Twenty-Three - Italian Innovation 173
Chapter Twenty-Four - It's a Wrap 176
Chapter Twenty-Five - The Good Bye Girls 181
Epilogue - November 1, 2014 183
Appendix I - The Return of the Curve 187
Appendix II - Sam's Second Set of Curves: Trends for the Supply and Demand of Labour 189
Appendix III - Sam's Tweets 191

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