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Suggested Reading
A Life Well Spent
Russ Crossen
Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life
Michael Novak
Coming into Money: Preparing Your Children for an Inheritance
Barbara Blouin
Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness (Family Business Leadership)
Craig E. Aronoff
Family Wealth--Keeping It in the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations
James E. Hughes, Jr.
For Love and/or Money: The Impact of Inherited Wealth on Relationships
Barbara Blouin and Katherine Gibson
Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance
Bob Buford
Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life
Bruce Rosenstein and Frances Hesselbein
Perpetuating The Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned from Long Lasting, Successful Families in Business
John Ward
Preparing Heirs: Five Steps to a Successful Transition of Family Wealth and Values
Roy Williams and Vic Preisser
Splitting Heirs
Ron Blue
Stuck in Halftime: Reinvesting Your One and Only Life.
Bob Buford
The Call
Os Guiness
The Dream Giver
Bruce Wilkinson
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J Stanley and William D Danko
The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work
Richard Leider
The Purposes of Money
Os Hillman
The Treasure Principle
Randy Alcorn
Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can Get the Most Out of Your Giving
Claude Rosenberg Jr.
Your Money Counts
Howard Dayton
Web Resources