Seeking Succession : How to Continue the Family Business Legacy - Hardcover

Rawls, Loyd H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966380193 ISBN 13: 9780966380194

Publisher: Horizon Business Press, 1999

Synopsis

"Seeking Succession" was written for business owners and advisors who are interested in keeping the family business in the family. Loyd H. Rawls has been on a passionate mission since 1973, helping business owners achieve their succession goals through training family principals, successors and key personnel in the critical factors of business succession. This book will improve the probability of the succession of family businesses through enhancing the understanding of the fundamental skills relating to the cornerstones of long-term success. Loaded with examples and actual case histories, Mr. Rawls' approach blends a highly technical subject with personal anecdotes, creating a manual that is easy to read and understand.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

If you are a family member in a family-owned business, you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your family to read this book. Through his featured column in DEALER Magazine, Loyd Rawls has been on a crusade to help automobile dealers solve what may be their biggest solvable problem... planning the inevitable succession of their business. This book's real-life examples and anecdotal style make a complicated subject easy to understand."
Michael Roscoe, Publisher & EditorPublisher & Editor, DEALER Magazine 
"Loyd's book was extremely insightful and very helpful to a professional such as myself whose practice deals with family disputes on a regular basis. The stories Loyd recounts hold up a mirror for many families to see themselves. The stories show that with diligent effort, success is within the grasp of families truly seeking answers to succession dilemmas. The solution principles Loyd lays out are well destined to lead to effective win-win solutions."
James F. Page, Jr., Certified Mediator, Attorney at Law, Page Mediation
"Loyd has done a superb job in helping my family plan for succession and in putting together an estate plan. Loyd has not only been a good friend, but a mentor to the future generation of leaders to come along in my business. He has also  counseled with the wives of the owners of our businesses when the need arose. I have recommended Loyd to numerous friends of mine in all sorts of businesses, and he has performed an invaluable service to each person to whom I have recommended him."
Louis C. Bachrodt, III, President, Lou Bachrodt Chevrolet

About the Author:

Loyd H. Rawls, ChFC, CLU, MSFS, is one of the nation's leading financial planners specializing in business succession. Mr. Rawls founded The Family Business Resource Center in 1996, an organization dedicated to educating owners and their successors in the critical aspects of family business succession planning. President of The Rawls Company, Mr. Rawls has provided financial services for the owners and key executives for closely-held, capital intensive, family owned businesses since 1973.

About this edition

• Publisher: Horizon Business Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0966380193
• ISBN 13: 9780966380194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320