Autumn 2008
Toolbox Autumn 2008
By Barbara Spector
The lessons to be learned from famous family feuds
Family Wars, By Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson; Kogan Page, 290 pp., $37.50; http://www.koganpage.com
How could a committed family business owner possibly benefit from a recounting of the world's most sensational business family feuds-the scandalous lawsuits, firings, divorces, splitoffs, buyouts and other misfortunes that over the years have been reported by not only the business press but also, in many cases, the gossip columns? Why would a serious steward of, say, a $25 million family enterprise want to read, yet again, about the woes that have befallen the Redstones, the Pritzkers and other squabbling …
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