July 21, 2005
ISSN 15465640
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July 21, 2005 Issue #043 Family Business Experts
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In This Issue...
1. Our Managing Director Announces -
2. Business first family...Family first business
Background check
3. Legacy through Leadership
LP17. Ensuring Compatible Interests
4. Around the Family Business Experts web sites
1. Our Managing Director Announces -
Besides dodging hurricanes, we've been busy adding some exciting and interesting new material to the site.
A new alliance with a leading firm to enable you to get low-cost, fast, reliable due diligence background checks when you need them.
A resource section that shows you how to get the information and do free background checks, and pre-employment screenings.
And we profile Cooper Music's fourth generation owners who are about to celebrate 100 years in business. Learn how they balance maintaining a legacy while embracing change.
We continue with the Leadership Practices series, since these practices are the foundation for the processes that must be in place in order to achieve success.
Reminder: We've developed a couple of quick diagnostic assessments to help you. They are both fr*ee [at least for a while] and we try to deliver 48 hour turnaround of our analysis. Try them!
The Holonomic Top Down Assessment asks you about a combination of the 12 Main Enabling Processes that an effective organization has to have operating in order to achieve the 6 Desired Organizational Characteristics of effective organizations. Where your assessment indicates one or more of these are not working in your organization, we'll feed back suggestions as to the underlying Leadership Practices that might not be working.
Diagnosing from the other direction - Bottom-Up - we ask you to identify which of 29 Leadership Practices aren't present or working. From that, we point you to Enabling Processes and thus Desired Characteristics that probably aren't functioning.
Whether to contribute, challenge (or hopefully even praise) our newsletter, I encourage you to contact me directly Don, or our editor David.
Enjoy, and here's wishing you, your family, your clients... much success and a relaxing and memorable Memorial Day!
Don Schwerzler, Managing Director
Family Business Experts
2. Business first family...Family first business:
Resume fraud is just one of the reasons why you might need to run a background check. Family Business Experts has formed an alliance with Washington Research Associates Inc. to offer E-BackgroundCheck(TM). This is a fast, reliable, and economical due-diligence background check, which you can conduct confidentially on any U.S. citizen. All you need to know is your subject's name and a current or past address.
Free background checks - check out our resources that can save you money. And learn why background checks are not just for employment situations.
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"Do-It-Yourself Retirement Planning"
Software to help you stay on track with your long term financial goals And track your personal net worth
3. Legacy through Leadership There are 29 Leadership Practices [LP] that are really the foundation upon which 12 holonomic or enabling processes[HP] are built, and which, in turn, produce 6 desired organizational characteristics [DOC]. We'll look at each in this section.
LP17. Ensuring Compatible Interests
Ensuring compatible interests strives to achieve harmonious interests as a matter of policy among the organization's Associates, units, clients, customers, and suppliers. The organizational rewards systems and human resource policies foster and support working together to ensure unit and organization success. Associates view these policies as fair, reasonable, and ethical. Furthermore, the policies ensure that individual rewards systems are consistent with the organizational rewards systems. They help Associates replace "lone wolf' mentality and recognize that unit-and organization-level success depend on working together.
Take our fr*ee assessment on the 29 Leadership Practices...
4. Around the Family Business Experts web sites
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Check out our new alliance that lets you get a fast and inexpensive due diligence Background Check.
And learn how to do Free Background Checks.
Don't forget that you can complete our Family Business Profile Questionnaire form to have your family business or client profiled.
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Read the review of The Practitioner's Guide for Organizing an Organization and click on its ASK THE EXPERT link to contact Dr. Byrne who is an experienced user of the diagnostic tools.
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