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Family wars, stories and insights from famous family business feuds, Grant Gordon, Nigel Nicholson

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index

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non fiction

Family wars

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Grant Gordon, Nigel Nicholson

stories and insights from famous family business feuds

Many of the world's greatest businesses are family owned, and with this comes the threat of family feuding, sibling rivalries, and petty jealousies. Family Wars takes readers behind the scenes on a rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of some of the biggest family-run companies in the world, showing how family in-fighting has threatened to bring about their downfall. Covering families such as Ford, Gucci, McCain, Guinness, Gallo, and Redstone, Family Wars is an astonishing expose of the way families do business and how family in-fighting can threaten to blow a business apart. Whether i

List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Family wars; 2 The ideas: The roots of family warfare; 3 Brothers at arms; 4 Fighting for the crown; 5 The house that hubris built; 6 Heads in the sand -- the insularity trap; 7 Schism -- the house divided; 8 Un-civil war; 9 The lessons -- the price of war and the prize of peace; Notes; Index