Women in Family Business

Women in Family Business
by Patricia Annino, J.D., Thomas Davidow, Ed. D. & Cynthia Admas Harrison, Ed. D. LICSW with Lisbeth Davidow, Ed. M., M.F.A.
ISBN: 1-4392-2239-3

I liked the set up of this book. It is simply elegant. There were different areas of each chapter that were set on a gray background that made it easy to see the examples and the points to remember. It is set up as a question and answer with different sections addressing women in different family business situations such as wife, widow, mother, step mother, daughter and so on.

The book wasn't what I expected it to be about. I thought it was going to be about different woman's successful actions to make it in a man's world of family business. Instead it is a book about advice for women to use for different situations in a family business.

Some advice is good, some isn't. Being from a family that has a family business, that was started by a woman and seeing the interaction between great grandmother, grandparents and grand-uncles/aunts, cousins and distant cousins I do see that there is a need for such a book. With my family, the way the business stayed together and ran smoothly for several generations was with a common purpose. That subject was not included within the book.

This book has good with the not so applicable while being extremely nicely set up which makes it easy to read and refer to.