Family organization and governance for sustaining the family business : a field manual -- Reasons for starting or resisting a family council -- stages of family businesses and types of family councils -- How to start and organize a family council -- Running the family council -- Committees of the family council -- The family assembly and the family association -- Special family governance structures : owners councils and executive committees -- Family leadership -- Using a professional facilitator -- Transitions in the family council -- Connecting the family council with the board and the business -- Family communications -- The journey forward

1. Family-owned business enterprises -- Management
2. Corporate governance
3. Boards of directors