Separately, love and business are two of life s greatest challenges. What happens when you weave them together? The possibilities run the gamut from bliss to disaster. In Sleeping with Your Business Partner, this husband-and-wife 'co-preneur' team argues that the key to success in both is learning how to communicate properly. Through discussion, interviews with real-life 'co-preneurs', and interactive exercises, the book teaches team-based couples how to communicate with each other to improve both their business and their personal relationship. Each informative, easy-to-read chapter includes insights, tips, exercises, and quizzes to help couples minimize misunderstandings, clarify expectations, build healthier relationships, increase productivity and manage conflict more effectively. The book also addresses various personality types, stress, planning, decision-making, negotiating strategies, role confusion, time management, differing responsibilities at home and work, and power struggles.
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Dr. Becky Stewart-Gross has trained thousands of leaders and emerging leaders in companies ranging from small family-owned businesses to large multinational corporations. She is the founder of Building Bridges, which offers custom-designed communication training. Dr. Mike Gross has thirty years of experience in education, his career has included serving as Chief Administrator of the L.C.O. Ojibwe School System and the Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Grand Rapids, MI. Since retiring from school-based education, he has joined Building Bridges with his wife Becky.
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A 'must read' for anyone thinking about (or already engaged in) a business with their spouse.,
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This review is from: Sleeping with Your Business Partner: Communications for Couples in Business Together (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development) (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development) (Paperback)
The collaborative work of Becky and Michael Gross, "Sleeping With Your Business Partner: A Communication Toolkit For Couples In Business Together" is the newest title in Capital Books' outstanding 'Capital Career & Personal Development Series', and focuses specifically upon operating a 'Mom & Pop' business enterprise where the husband and wife work together. There are both benefits and detriments to such an arrangement that arise from gender differences, conceptual differences, the need to balance family and work, conflict resolution strategies and techniques, personal and professional communication skills, the demands of teamwork and the necessity of positive attitudes. Superbly written, deftly organized, and thoroughly 'reader friendly', "Sleeping With Your Business Partner" should be considered a 'must read' for anyone thinking about (or already engaged in) a business with their spouse.
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This review originally appeared on the Boardroom Couple Blog: Sleeping with Your Business Partner, A Communication Toolkit for Couples in Business Together, by Becky and Michael Gross is a book that focuses on how to manage the daily communication issues a couple faces when they work together.
The book is full of questions, assessments, charts and tips that couples who work together can use to improve their relationship inside and outside of the office. The first chapter of the book is devoted to discussing who copreneurial couples are, what common problems copreneurs face, what is required to be a successful copreneurial couple and what to expect from working with your spouse if you aren't doing so already. They mention several real-life copreneurs and provide a wealth of questions and assessments that you and your spouse can take to start discussions that need to be had sooner rather than later. Chapter 2 helps you identify you and your spouse's personality traits through the INSIGHT Inventory. This was the one part of the book that I found odd. The authors repeatedly mention the INSIGHT Inventory, which is not included when you buy the book. Instead, you must go to their website and purchase the assessment for $19.99. While they do provide an overview of the types of traits of the different personalities, they continually mention that you should go to their website and take the test. This doesn't mean that if you didn't take the INSIGHT test the chapter wasn't worth reading, because it is. I was still able to find value in the way they present the different personality types and could use it to understand the way my personality interacts with the personalities of not only my spouse, but my children and friends as well! Chapter 3 covers the balancing of work and family life and has a helpful "Sharing Responsibilities" chart for you to fill out with your spouse. Chapter 4 covers some of the relationship pitfalls a couple can experience when working together and discusses some negotiation techniques you can use to make negotiations with your spouse or business associates a "mutual gain" experience. The remaining chapters cover the specifics of how to be successful with communication, listening, business communication, teamwork, and a positive attitude. The book is good for couples who are considering working together and those who are already working together. While many of the assesments throughout the book you cannot answer until you already know what it is like to work with your spouse, the "Right Stuff" inventory in Chapter 1 alone is worth the purchase of the book for those considering a business with their spouse because the authors do a great job of bringing up much of what an entrepreneurial couple can expect to encounter. This book differs from other copreneurial books in that it focuses more on the communication aspects of working with your spouse, and that is a good thing. So much of successful marriage and business revolve around communication that everyone can benefit from improving these skills by reading Sleeping with Your Business Partner.
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Focusing on "Together",
This review is from: Sleeping with Your Business Partner: Communications for Couples in Business Together (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development) (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development) (Paperback)
I didn't know when I said "I do" that I would end up running a business with my husband. It's a challenging path and yet one that many couples choose, or end up on. This book gives lots of practical advice and tips to help make it easier, more effective and more fun. There's something about being in business with your spouse that is very different from any other partnership, and we need all the advice we can get.
The authors share from their own lives that it takes a lot of effort and energy to communicate successfully and find balance between business and home life. One area that could be developed more is how to turn off the business relationship and turn on the personal intimacy and passion - even when there's not much time left in the day. Diana Daffner Author, Tantric Sex for Busy Couples: How to Deepen Your Passion in Just Ten Minutes a Day
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