Preface by Andrea Pontremoli, Chief Executive Officer of Dallara Automobili SpA and Gioacchino Attanzio, Director and General Manager of AldAF Italian Family Business Association.
A management book that reads like a novel, written in clear and immediate language. It tells a life story and draws out lessons on leadership and especially on the subject of succession in business: a central issue for many first- and second-generation businesses today.
It is certainly a cliché to say that "the first generation creates, the second continues, and the third destroys," but the most up-to-date analyses of generational transition in Italy say that the risks to business continuity are very real and that only about 1/3 of companies survive the transition from the first to the second generation by starting a new phase of growth.
Leadership and succession are thus the 2 major themes that intertwine and stand out strongly in this "true story" of a manager, management consultant, and entrepreneur.
In this new edition, Romano Bonfiglioli has paired reflections on leadership with three generational transitions, true stories told "viva voce" by the protagonists, where the founder successfully passed the leadership of the company to his sons.
This book, which, written in clear and immediate language reads like a novel, thus becomes an easy treatise on management that identifies effective leadership and successful succession as the secret of successful organizations.
It is therefore aimed at entrepreneurs, the children of entrepreneurs, managers and all leaders who "suddenly" find themselves in a decision-making role without having the appropriate knowledge; and finally, at all those who, if only for a cultural fact, wish to delve into these major issues that are a key problem of organizations and thus of modern society.
