Family Business Mission Statements

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Family business mission statements - does your family business have one?

“Family business mission statements are part of the transition process as a family business evolves from being an entrepreneurial start-up, with a very informal management style, to an organization that has a more formal or professionalized style of management,” according to leading family business expert Don Schwerzler.

“Family business mission statements often reflect the personal values of the family – those values that drive the decision making process in the family’s business.”

Schwerzler has been studying and advising family businesses for more than 40 years and he is the founder of the Family Business Institute.

Based in Atlanta, the Family Business Institute was the very first multi-disciplined resource organized to deal with the unique and complex issues that confront and confuse families in business together.

Books have been published that contain samples of mission statements from a variety of businesses. But to our knowledge, there is not a compilation of mission statements from family-owned businesses.

We thought it would be interesting to start collecting samples of family business mission statements - but we need your help!

If you are involved in a family business, please take a few minutes and share your mission statement with other family businesses who visit our site. Your mission statement could be inspirational in helping other family businesses create a mission statement for their business.

Likewise, if you are a professional service provider, a vendor or a customer of a family business and would like to recognize and publicize that business – please submit the family business mission statement to our site!

Family Business Mission Statements
Samples from REAL family businesses

The mission statements of family businesses generally reflect the values of the family that influence the decision making process for the business.

Taking a few minutes to share your family business mission statement will be a great help to other family businesses in the process of creating a mission statement for their family's business.

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Close Help Entering the mission statement is easy to do. Just type!... The mission statement will appear on a Web page exactly the way you enter it here. We also would like to recommend that you include a brief note about your family business. For example, "We are a third generation family business that was started in 1975 by Bob Smith. The current CEO is Bob Smith Jr. His son John and daughter Susan are also part of the management team" - that type of message helps to brand your business as a family business. That will improve the odds that someone reading your mission statement on our site will take a look at your web site. If they chose to do that, it can increase traffic to your site -and that can't hurt!!!

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