When Your Parents' Sign the Paychecks

Testimonials for When Your Parents Sign the Paychecks

"I urge you to read this pragmatic and thoughtful book as a critical investment in yourself, your next generation, and your family business"

Dr. Pardita Sharma, Professor of Management and Associate Dean at the Wilfrid Laurier University, and Associate Editor for The Family Business Review.

"Essential for any college student considering entering their family's business ... A life changing experience, I would still be lost without it."

Shannon McFarland, next generation of a family that owns a business and Stetson University Family Business Graduate

"This book fills a long-missing gap in the literature designed to promote the success and survival of family business. Greg McCann has provided both the founder and successor groups with an outstanding step-by-step roadmap for avoiding a major pitfall in the perpetuation of family business: an unqualified and unprepared younger generation."

Steve Swartz, pioneer in family business consulting and former president of the Family Firm Institute

"For family business successors (and those who help develop them!), this book:

  • captures the essence of the challenges faced by the next generation
  • convincingly reinforces the value in fully developing one's unique potential
  • provides insightful methods to achieve personal and professional success."

Ann Kinkade, Director of the Family Business Center and Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"A powerful and life-altering book. Unlike anything else available today for our nation's family business owners and their children."

Trevor R. Whitley
(Family business major-graduate)
Financial Advisor

"Working with the children of family enterprises has shown me the need for this type of literature and made obvious the void that has now been filled. This book helps validate the next generation's struggle by providing a roadmap for them to overcome the challenges and take advantage of the opportunity they have."

"Dr. Greg McCann presents the challenges and opportunities members of the next generation face in a humorous and accessible way."

"Any person whose family owns a business would be well served to read and implement the concepts described in McCann's groundbreaking book."

"This book is a must read for anyone whose family owns a business. Implementing the concepts in this book can truly be life changing- making a family closer and helping the family business beat the odds of transitioning control from generation to the next."

"McCann's book takes on a subject that has for too long been ignored. This book will help family businesses beat the odds of sustaining from one generation to the next and will help destroy the 70% failure rate family businesses are up against."

Jill Shipley, MBA, The Senior Leader of the Family Learning Center at Asset Management Advisors