Approach to Family Business Coaching

 CFAR Inc.

Description: CFAR's coaching process has three-stages: reappreciate, rethink and realign. This paper examines each of these stages and details CFAR's unique approach to working with family businesses.

Fam_bus.pdf   [117.62 Kb]

Briefing Notes: Following a Founder -- Issues of Transition and Continuity

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This briefing note outlines the challenges inherent in following a founder.

Foll_fou.pdf   [316.76 Kb]

Briefing Notes: Typical Patterns in Top Teams: How This Group 'Gets Stuck'

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This briefing note looks at some commonly found patterns of interaction that tend to prevent groups from doing their work. Included are suggestions on how to break through each pattern by taking a learning role.

Top_team.pdf   [123.92 Kb]

Interview with a Founder - Drozdow: Nancy Drozdow, Principal, CFAR.

 Nancy Drozdow

Description: Nancy Drozdow recounts her role in the early days of the Family Firm Institute.

FFIInterview.pdf   [123.84 Kb]

Joint Ventures: A Fast Track Strategy for Growth

 Nancy Drozdow

Description: Partnering with another company enables a family firm to enter a market more quickly and broadly than it could otherwise. In this article, we explain how. Published in Family Business Magazine, Winter 2009

NDFB.pdf   [724.20 Kb]

Leading the Family-Owned Sports Franchise

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This piece talks about the problems faced by family-owned sports teams and the ways in which CFAR can help them.

FB-Sports.pdf   [490.96 Kb]

Our Family Business Practice

 CFAR Inc.

Description: All businesses face risk. However, leaders in owner-led and family firms must deal with a complex web of factors that, if not well managed, multiply their economic risk. This one page piece looks at what makes family businesses unique and how CFAR works with them. Examples of some client stories are included.

FBMKT.pdf   [870.40 Kb]

The Integrated Family Enterprise

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This piece talks about Family Offices, Businesses, and Foundations and gives a case example of work CFAR has done with each.

OLB_IntFam.pdf   [119.80 Kb]

The Power of Negotiating in a Family-Owned Business

 Debbie Bing

Description: The article looks at using negotiation as a technique to help you integrate personal interests with business needs. Family Business Magazine, Autumn 2008

Powerneg.pdf   [96.73 Kb]

Tools for Strategy Development in Family Firms

 Nancy Drozdow, Vincent P. Carroll

Description: Information on how to obtain this article which was published in Sloan Management Review, Vol. 39 (1), Fall 1997, pp. 75 -- 88.

sloan.pdf   [276.21 Kb]

What is Continuity?

 Nancy Drozdow

Description: Published in "Family Business Review," Vol. 11(4), December 1998, pages 337 -- 347.

WhatCont.pdf   [504.36 Kb]