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"Most family businesses fail to transcend multiple generations because succession becomes increasingly complex with every passing generation. Growing a business and transitioning a business to the next generation are two very distinct skill sets. In family business, leadership is much more complex than simply being a good operator of the day-to-day operations. In Build to Flourish: Leading Your Family Business into the Next Generation, Matthew Powell teaches you the four essential ingredients to cultivate the success of your family business: working with your family, on the business, in the business, and on yourself. Between prioritizing stewardship over profit and offering methods for fostering the talent within your team, Matthew shows you how to embrace both the ""family"" and ""business"" dimensions of your family business.  Succession in family businesses often leaves the next generation of leaders ill-equipped for the handoff of leadership. Build to Flourish offers you tools and frameworks to foster a flourishing business while making a momentous leadership transition."

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Matthew is an effective, dedicated, and benevolent executive who is building up his family's fourth generation business to continue to grow and prosper. In Build to Flourish, he generously shares his lessons learned, from joining the company after a successful career outside of the family business through becoming president. Build to Flourish is a must-read for all executives, especially those working through generational leadership transfers. - Karl Williams, CEO, Waterstone Consulting Matthew Powell is the real deal. He's a voracious reader, eager to learn, eminently coachable, and in the words of leadership genius Patrick Lencioni, 'humble, hungry, and smart.' So it's not surprising that Build to Flourish is no armchair leadership book. Matthew has been in the trenches-literally-and has written an accessible, savvy, and practical book with learnings for both aspiring and seasoned leaders. - Philip C Bergey, Senior Design Partner and Executive Coach, Design Group International In the world of business valuation, succession, mergers, and acquisitions, almost all of the works are about the founder, the long-time CEO, and occasionally about a business partnership that worked. Insightful literature is rare for the successor who plays cleanup for anything left undone and whose perspective and wisdom must grow if they are even to grasp what needs cleaning. Matthew Powell opens a locked door and turns on the lights with this memoir about his long road as a successor. His is a much appreciated and already wise voice. - Mark L Vincent, Executive Advisor and Founder, Design Group International and the Society for Process Consulting

"""Matthew is an effective, dedicated, and benevolent executive who is building up his family's fourth generation business to continue to grow and prosper. In Build to Flourish, he generously shares his lessons learned, from joining the company after a successful career outside of the family business through becoming president. Build to Flourish is a must-read for all executives, especially those working through generational leadership transfers."" - Karl Williams, CEO, Waterstone Consulting ""Matthew Powell is the real deal. He's a voracious reader, eager to learn, eminently coachable, and in the words of leadership genius Patrick Lencioni, 'humble, hungry, and smart.' So it's not surprising that Build to Flourish is no armchair leadership book. Matthew has been in the trenches-literally-and has written an accessible, savvy, and practical book with learnings for both aspiring and seasoned leaders."" - Philip C Bergey, Senior Design Partner and Executive Coach, Design Group International ""In the world of business valuation, succession, mergers, and acquisitions, almost all of the works are about the founder, the long-time CEO, and occasionally about a business partnership that worked. Insightful literature is rare for the successor who plays cleanup for anything left undone and whose perspective and wisdom must grow if they are even to grasp what needs cleaning. Matthew Powell opens a locked door and turns on the lights with this memoir about his long road as a successor. His is a much appreciated and already wise voice."" - Mark L Vincent, Executive Advisor and Founder, Design Group International and the Society for Process Consulting"

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Matthew Powell is the Fourth Generation President of the Century Fence Company. As the leader of the over 100-year-old family business, Matthew is actively stewarding and transforming the business for its next 100 years. Prior to joining the family business, he was a Mergers & Acquisition Analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Matthew lives in Wisconsin with his family.

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