Sleeping With Your Business Partner Testimonials
"This book is a through, clear and practical guide book for the copreneurial journey. It is chock full of road maps, survival tools, traveler's advisories, preventive advice, and first aid instructions (that you will probably need). Don't leave home without it!"
“If there could be a guarantee on being a successful couple in business, this book would be it. A must read for anyone contemplating going into business with a spouse.”
“Anyone who plans on becoming full time business partners with a spouse needs to know a lot more that they realize about themselves, their relationship, and their marriage. Sleeping With Your Business Partner takes the guesswork out of it and helps a couple realize what they are getting into.”
"Tool kits are to a workman as the ten essentials are to the Boy Scout--basic necessities to get the job done. Sleeping with Your Business Partner: A Communication Toolkit for Couples in Business Together is a thorough collection of communication essentials for the couple who wants to be successful in business and marriage at the same time. Not all couples communicate well enough to work together. If a couple is exploring the notion of being in business together and wants a handbook to guide them, this book covers everything. There is no business or marriage that can't get better by learning the essentials of good communication."
“Sleeping with Your Business Partner is a unique, timely, and highly valuable resource for couples engaged in or considering operating a business together. Copreneurship, the name given to this type of enterprise, is the fastest growing type of family business in the U.S. This book fulfills a need for a practical guide for copreneurs so they can achieve goals of a successful business and a successful marriage and family life. In their book, husband and wife team, Becky Stewart- Gross and Michael Gross, incorporate their own extensive experience as copreneurs with that of six other couples at varying stages of working together. They undergird real-life experiences with insights and findings from the social sciences and communication study that will help a couple understand what they can do to enhance their communication, their relationship, and their business. This book contains many practical "how-to" activities, tips, inventories, and other tools for understanding and dealing with situations that commonly arise in copreneur couples and families. These include personality styles and differences, managing conflicts, developing negotiation skills, managing stresses, delegating, balancing work and family, taking "time out," and understanding generational differences. Emphasis is given to sharpening communication skills as the single most important ingredient–the "taproot"–of successful relationships. Becky and Mike also include a section on making more effective use of Voicemail, E-Mail, Cell phones, Web conferences and Webcasts. This book is a "must read" for copreneurs. It will be useful also for anyone who works with them such as teachers or leaders of workshops, conferences, and retreats and family and marriage counselors. Parents, in-laws, or other relatives of copreneurs can also benefit from this book by helping them understand the pressures that a couple in business together can experience.”
“A must read for couples who want to build real world value in their businesses and make sure that family holidays are held under one roof! Sleeping with Your Business Partner is full of priceless, practical advice. The information provided is paired with easy to follow exercises that make it painless to incorporate what you’ve learned into your business and your relationship.”
“Ah Bliss!! Working with your spouse! Well, I can say that now. But when my husband John and I started our company together 15 years ago, the same year we were married, it was more than bliss! You may have heard our heads knocking together as we navigated the waters of a new marriage and a new business, which in itself is a new relationship! I only wish a book like this had been available to us back then! As I read through this book, I just felt myself nodding and smiling. Yes, yes, you are right again I kept saying. This is a book I would recommend to anyone that is considering working with their spouse, or who has been in a work/life partner relationship for years. Becky and Mike share an approach to working with ones spouse that is innovative, fresh and thought provoking! This is a handbook, a journal and a life coach all rolled into one! I love going to work everyday with my husband and partner designing beautiful home furnishings that make people smile. A great marriage at work and home can be had and this book surely could help get any couple on their way.”
“Marriages are difficult enough without working along side your spouse, day in and day out, as a business and career partner. Likewise, work relationships provide enough challenge without being married to your coworker. Couples who undertake both, partnering together in their businesses and marriages, undertake a special journey. Before this book, they traveled with little assistance. Now, Sleeping with Your Business Partner provides a much-needed roadmap to guide couples undertaking this trip and help them treasure each step they take together.Sleeping with your Business Partner isn’t just a book; it’s a roadmap, a team building kit, and a marriage manual all woven together. In it, you’ll find checklists to complete together, a personality assessment to identify your strengths, activities to work through regularly, and crucial discussions to have with your partner/spouse. And best of all, Mike and Becky travel along with you; sometimes whispering their suggestions and other times shouting their directions, with the heartfelt intent of helping you reach your goals. You’ll quickly sense their personal concern for bringing out the best in you.As you start this book, you’ll find that you awake each day anticipating new payoffs and excited about facing new challenges that come from working with your marriage partner. Becky and Mike will help you take on the challenges with renewed vigor and helpful strategies and they’ll help you celebrate the successes and further appreciate the reasons you’re together as partners in this journey.My suggestion? Get four copies, two for yourself and two for your partner. Put them on each of your workstations and under each of your pillows. Then, read them often, not as you would skim a novel, but rather as you would use a compass. Keep redirecting your energies toward the best that you both can be, bring your combined goodness to your shared endeavor, and let Mike and Becky guide you to success. Treasure the journey and enjoy “Sleeping with Your Business Partner.”
"Dr. Becky Stewart-Gross and Dr. Mike Gross have a combined 50 years experience working with, leading and training people, and they have partnered this experience with their insightful and down-to-earth business sense and people skills to write an impactful book that will guide many couples as they seek to be business partners.It is rare to find a book that so clearly blends solid business and management principles with guidance and specific tips and techniques for working together as a couple.My favorite chapter is four: Turning Conflict into Bridge Building. (Identifying your reactions to conflict is fabulous!) If followed, the tips and wisdom in this chapter alone will save many couples a lot of stress.