by johnireland | Articles
I don’t read many business books cover to cover, but this one stuck with me. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, takes theories built to explain why companies succeed or fail and turns them on the...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Clayton Christensen was a Harvard Business School professor known for disruptive innovation theory. In How Will You Measure Your Life?, written with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, he turns his management ideas onto personal life instead of companies. He borrows...
by johnireland | Articles
Most books written for business owners are about growth. This one is about what happens after growth — and it is the only book on this shelf that is genuinely about the same problem we deal with every day. James E. Hughes Jr, an American estate lawyer of the old...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family by James E. Hughes Jr — the classic on why families lose money across generations, and what actually prevents it. Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations is a pattern, not a superstition. Hughes argues the cause is...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Never Split the Difference, by former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, is not a book about tax or estate planning — but it is unusually useful for business owners facing three specific conversations: negotiating a business sale, resolving a shareholder dispute, and...
