Deconstructing Conflict Book

The Essential Resource for Families That Share Ownership of Business or Financial Assets

Deconstructing Conflict: Understanding Family Business, Shared Wealth and Power

Inside the Book

Deconstructing Conflict distills more than fifteen years of helping enterprising families own and manage together.

Based upon their groundbreaking methodology known as “The Conflict Equation,” the book presents foundational concepts to help you deconstruct conflict into its component parts to make it manageable.

Understand:

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Why conflict is built into the family business system

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The three reasons that underlie all conflict

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What triggers lead to active conflict

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Ways to approach managing conflict over time

Deconstructing Conflict Book

Cutting-edge Thinking to Help Family Business Stakeholders and Their Advisors Achieve Generational Success in Family Enterprise

About the Book

Deconstructing Conflict looks at family business conflict, or conflict over shared wealth, as one example of a broader category of conflict: identity-based, systemic conflict among stakeholders who share important continuing relationships.

This acclaimed work draws upon nearly fifteen years of experience in which Baumoel and Trippe have helped scores of enterprising families navigate the challenges of owning and managing together as family. Based upon their groundbreaking methodology known as “The Conflict Equation,” the book presents five foundational concepts to help readers deconstruct conflict into its component parts. It will help you understand the reasons that underlie all conflict, what triggers active conflict, and why conflict can be so extreme and intractable in family business systems. This book will arm family business stakeholders and their advisors with the most cutting-edge thinking for achieving generational success in family enterprise.

With a Foreword by Tim Phillips – CEO and Co-Founder, Beyond Conflict.

In their Own Words

An overview from co-author Doug Baumoel

Founding Partner

Continuity Founding Partner Doug Baumoel discusses The Conflict Equation and why a mathematical tool is so effective in managing behavioral issues.