The Family Edge: How Your Biggest Competitive Advantage in Business Isn't What You've Been Taught . . . It's Your Family

by Gibb Dyer

Overview

What's the most important asset any entrepreneur or business owner needs to succeed? After more than thirty years consulting for Fortune 100 companies, international organizations, and family businesses around the world, Gibb Dyer confirms that the secret ingredient to business and entrepreneurial success is not an MBA from a great school, a fantastic marketing plan, or even a blue ocean strategy. It's access to three types of capital: financial, social, and human. Dyer's three decades worth of research and data conclude statistically that the most effective and successful entrepreneurs have immediate access to these three—all within their family. 

A groundbreaking book for any business owner, family business, or budding entrepreneur, The Family Edge provides clear evidence and powerful tools to help you leverage the asset you need but have probably not paid enough attention to: family capital. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641702034
Publisher:	Familius
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Gibb Dyer (PhD, MIT) is the O. Leslie Stone Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Academic Director of the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance in the Marriott School of Business. He is an award-winning author, having published seven books and over sixty articles, and he has also been a consultant to leaders of family businesses and entrepreneurial firms for over thirty years. His research has been quoted in publications such as Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He and his wife, Theresa, are the parents of seven children and have seventeen active grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 What Is Family Capital, and Why Do We Need It? 11

Chapter 2 How We Are Losing Family Capital 39

Chapter 3 The impact of Family Structure on Family Capital 73

Chapter 4 Cultural Patterns in Families That Encourage or Undermine Family Capital 109

Chapter 5 Family Activities That Create and Strengthen Family Capital 137

Chapter 6 Building Trust: The Foundation of Family Capital 155

Chapter 7 How Do We Transfer Family Capital to the Next Generation? 175

Chapter 8 Can Churches, Schools, NGOs, and Government Substitute for Family Capital? 199

Chapter 9 Becoming a Resource-Rich Family 231

About the Author 243

About Familius 244

Editorial Reviews

If “The business of America is business” then Gibb Dyer’s book, The Family Edge, makes a national case to the academy, to Wall Street, to politicians, and to ordinary Americans that "family capital," the greatest generator of entrepreneurial souls, is the deepest foundation of our nation’s economy. 
-Patrick F. Fagan, PhD, Director, MARRI, The Catholic University of America

"In this excellent new book, Gibb Dyer puts forth the most compelling case to date for why the sustainability of supportive, trust-inducing family ties is not just good for the quality of relationships within enterprising families, it is an essential strategic advantage for the growth and continuity of the enterprises that these families own and manage.
- Ivan Lansberg, founding editor of the Family Business Review
 

From the Publisher

"In this excellent new book, Gibb Dyer puts forth the most compelling case to date for why the sustainability of supportive, trust-inducing family ties is not just good for the quality of relationships within enterprising families, it is anessentialstrategic advantage for the growth and continuity of the enterprises that these families own and manage."

—Ivan Lansberg, founding editor of the Family Business Review

Ivan Lansberg

If “The business of America is business” then Gibb Dyer’s book, The Family Edge, makes a national case to the academy, to Wall Street, to politicians, and to ordinary Americans that "family capital," the greatest generator of entrepreneurial souls, is the deepest foundation of our nation’s economy.

—Patrick F. Fagan, PhD, Director, MARRI, The Catholic University of America

PhD Patrick F. Fagan