How to Choose and Use Advisors

CRAIG E. ARONOFF Co-founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University, USA. He invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family business education for universities world-wide.JOHN L. WARD Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA, and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity.

• PrefaceThe Value of Good AdviceWhy So Few Business Owners Get and Accept Good AdviceBenchmarks in Advisory Service: What is the Best You Can Expect?Red Flags: Warning Signals in Advisory RelationshipsFinding and Choosing and AdvisorManaging and Evaluating AdvisorsSummaryAppendixIndex

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