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John Ward


Recent Articles about John Ward

Modeling Your Company's Future

John Ward, a management consultant and owner of Need To Know, teaches workshop participants to sculpt images from clay that represent their company's philoso...  Read more

How to Assemble a Board of Advisers

How to set up a board of advisers to help you run your small business  Read more

Nepotism

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Resources for Family-Run Businesses

Craig Aronoff and John Ward are the authors of Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership and Family Business Succession: The ...  Read more

Meetings

Meetings, while disliked by many, are an essential part of many business operations. They are often the best venue in which communications can take place,...  Read more

Create a Culture of Change

The years ahead promise even faster and more fundamental change forfamily firms. Industry consolidation, shrinking strategic life cycles,e-commerce, globa...  Read more

Succession Plans

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Could Your Kids Run Your Company?

If you hope someday to pass your company on to your kids, you should start making plans now. Here's how to prepare yourself--and your children--for the trans...  Read more

How to Choose a Successor

Are you dragging your feet when it comes to creating a succession plan? You shouldn't. Here's how to get started choosing (and training) your replacement.  Read more

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the December issue.  Read more

The Complete New-Business Survival Guide

Inc.'s catalog of the best books, agencies, networking groups and information sources for the self-educating CEO.  Read more

A Family Creed

It may just be the thing that allows you to keep the business together without blowing the family apart  Read more

Should You Leave the Company to Your Kids?

Business owners take sides on the issue of leaving your business to the kids when you retire.  Read more

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business.  Read more

Ask Inc.

Dodging Dun & Bradstreet; a sticky succession issue.  Read more

Network: February 1993

Network question and answers: Reader-to-reader advice on a variety of topics.  Read more

Bored With the Board

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to topics and issues featured in the May edition of Inc. magazine.  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the December, 1997, issue of Inc. , including Edward O. Welles' "Clipped!" and Nancy Austin's "Modeling Your Company's...  Read more

Where Great Ideas for New Businesses Come From

How four companies came into being.  Read more

Family Business

In the family, they already tell stories about Herman Komar's son, young Charlie. How at two he crawled up on to his great-aunt's lap to show her the picture...  Read more

Can Chicago Be Saved?

Among the nation's biggest cities, Chicago lags behind, a victim of political division, a big-company mentality, and its own past success  Read more

The Parent Trap

The personal costs of borrowing start-up capital from parents.  Read more