Books and White Papers
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
Our Family Business Crisis: and How It Made Us Stronger
The Top Nine Reasons Family Businesses Fail and the Eight Building Blocks for Creating a Sustainable Closely Held Company
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Prescriptions for a Healthy Family Business
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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