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Wayne Rivers’ insights into family business

Wayne Rivers, the founder of PCA, has written three insightful books focused on closely-held businesses. With roots deeply embedded in consulting for construction companies, Wayne’s books provide guidance on restoring family and closely-held businesses to a healthy state, offering prescriptions for their well-being, exploring the reasons behind their failures, and providing valuable advice on succession and strategic planning.

Guidance for family businesses

Wayne’s titles

Book Cover - Our Family Business Crisis and How it Made Us Stronger written by Wayne Rivers

Our Family Business Crisis: and How It Made Us Stronger


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Book Cover - The Top Nine Reasons Family Businesses Fail and The Eight Building Blocks for Creating a Sustainable Closely Held Company written by Wayne Rivers

The Top Nine Reasons Family Businesses Fail and the Eight Building Blocks for Creating a Sustainable Closely Held Company

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Book Cover - Prescriptions for a Healthy Family Business written by Wayne Rivers

Prescriptions for a Healthy Family Business

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Resources for the construction industry

Navigating industry challenges

Our white papers cover important topics in the construction industry. Leverage our advice and expertise to stay ahead and excel in the field.

Our white papers

Contractor Planning in Uncertain Times

The purpose of this white paper is to present, for the very first time, a tool you can use in real-time to precisely plot where your business stands. This info is coupled with advice and specific actions you can undertake to not only cope with the current environment but also to manage through and position your company for current and future success.

The Ideal Construction Dashboard

In this white paper, you will explore how to best track and measure individual and collective job performance, overall company profit performance, divisional performance, capital structure and performance, and even cultural performance.

The Top 10 Reasons Contractors Succeed

Many of you are familiar with the articles and books written about why contractors fail. While these pieces lay out the commonalities of distress and failure, they leave out the question of how to assure success.

Contractor Succession Simplified

This white paper will explore exit strategies, retirement planning, and ownership transition among family enterprises; the management succession plans of family enterprises; and the barriers to succession as identified by family business owners themselves and by family business consultants.

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