Introduction: A Fruitful Collaboration
A Delicate Relationship: Family Business Owners and Non-family Executives
Striking the Right Match
Making Non-family Executives a Part of Your Team
Managing the Transition to the Next Generation
The Non-family CEO
Just Rewards: Compensation and Incentives for Non-family Executives
An Open Letter to the Non-family Executive
Summary
Index

Hiring and working with non-family managers can present challenges to the family business. However, it is essential to create an environment in which non-family managers can suceed for the good of the business and the good of the family. This book explores the processes of hiring, managing, and retaining talented outside executives.

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.