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The Family Business Mentoring Handbook

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1. Principles of mentoring
• What is mentoring? —James W. Lea
• Creating a mentoring system —Ivan Lansberg
• The complexities of family business mentoring —James W. Lea
• Misconceptions about mentoring —Kathy E. Kram
• The benefits are mutual —Michael G. Zey
• Mentoring and autonomy: A report from Finland —Minna Tunkkari
• Family profile: Eric Monsen's mentoring team —Stephen J. Simurda

2. Effective mentoring
• Fostering young adults' career explorations —Katherine Grady
• Eight essential mentoring skills —Mark N. Voeller
• Maximize the potential for mentoring success —James E. Barrett
• Mentoring misfires —James Olan Hutcheson
• The right ways to delegate —George Rimler

3. Parental mentoring
• When a parent is the mentor —Ivan Lansberg
• Integrating your child into your company —Dennis T. Jaffe
• Helping fathers mentor their sons —Edward P. Monte
• The joys and challenges of father-daughter mentoring —Anne E. Francis
• Moms as mentors —Florence Kaslow
• Watch your language —Andrea Grace Mackiewicz
• Family profile: The sweet smell of succession —Q&A with Leonard Lauder
• Family profile: The matriarch's lesson —Deanne Stone

4. Mentoring by non-family executives, directors and advisers
• 'Take my job, please' —Edwin T. Crego Jr.
• Mentoring tools for non-family employees —Scott E. Friedman
• Family profile: How the scion was mentored at IBM —Thomas J. Watson Jr. and Peter Petre
• Mentoring by an outside consultant: Q&A with Jack Pycik —Stephen L. McClure
• Family profile: Directors' lessons in human dynamics —George G. Raymond Jr.

5. Raising business-savvy children
• Grooming children for succession —David Bork
• Family profile: Talking business at the dinner table —Marshall B. Paisner
• Your business: A classroom for your children —Cindy Iannarelli
• Preparing daughters to lead the way —Ellen Frankenberg
• Raising money-smart kids in entrepreneurial families —Judy G. Barber
• Helping kids to answer comments about their wealth —David Bork
• Making the most of teenagers —Ellen Frankenberg
• Enjoy the grandkids —don't mentor them —Léon Danco
• Family profile: The best of both worlds —Kathryn Levy Feldman

6. Transmitting values and traditions
• Engineering the entrepreneurial spirit —Ellen Frankenberg
• Weaving a shared dream —Ivan Lansberg
• The role of the family's vision in a mentoring relationship —Glenn R. Ayres
• Family profile: Passing on the dream —Howard Muson
• Family profiles: Guided by the founder's legacy —Jayne A. Pearl
• Mentoring and all that 'Yaz' —Richard L. Narva
• Involving young adults in family philanthropy —Alison D. Goldberg

7. Preparing for the succession
• Teaching protégés to be proactive —Dean R. Fowler
• Young leaders must learn to take intelligent risks —Léon Danco
• Prepare your successors to meet key outsiders —James E. Barrett
• A laboratory for the future team —Stephen L. McClure
• Family profile: Mentored by my managers —Tripp Davis
• The founder in 'the jump seat'— Gerald Le Van

8. In the protégé's shoes
• Do you need a mentor? —Anne E. Francis
• Choosing a mentor —Ralph M. Daniel
• Five questions successors should ask themselves —Katherine Grady
• Some no-nonsense advice for protégés —Loyd H. Rawls
• Family profile: Heirs must learn to face reality —William G. Mennen IV
• Family profiles: Successors' memories of the mentoring process—Jayne A. Pearl
• Family profile: How Gina Gallo acquired a taste for leadership —Dan Rottenberg

9. Special mentoring needs
• Mentoring of siblings and cousins —Ivan Lansberg
• A family business revolution: Siblings as mentors —Marjory J. Levitt and Joel D. Levitt
• How old dogs learn new tricks: Mentors for the senior generation —Paul I. Karofsky
• Preparing next-generation members for non-managerial roles —James E. Barrett
• How to mentor non-family employees —Michael Sales
• Mentoring of women: The challenge —Jane Sullivan
• Mentoring relatives with dyslexia or ADD —James E. Barrett
• Managing the return of the prodigal child —James E. Barrett

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