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Item type

Book

Language

English

Pages

xiv, 203 p.

Physical description

xiv, 203 p.

Publication year

2013

Series

Personal Finance ; . Psychology

Collection

• Personal Finance

Subcollection

• Psychology

ISBN

978-0-615-89435-5

Note

• Notes

Subjects

• FAMILY BUSINESS
• COMPANY

An astonishing fact is that the vast majority of the wealthy come from middle-class or working-class backgrounds. Born and raised in modest economic circumstances, they find themselves as adults in the wonderful but unfamiliar world of wealth, like immigrants to a new land. Their adjustment is often harder than they anticipate. Yet awaiting wealth’s newcomers is an even more daunting task: how to raise children and grandchildren successfully in the family’s new world of affluence. Written by a prominent wealth psychologist, Strangers in Paradise takes an innovative approach to the challenges facing wealth’s “immigrants and natives.” Combining clear reasoning with real-world stories, Strangers in Paradise outlines for the first time how the key process for families of wealth - like all immigrant families - is adaptation.