Douglas D Box

Douglas D Box

Douglas D Box

 

Author

Speaker

Family Business Advisor

ENDORSEMENTS

  • "Doug Box delivers a powerful message that all family members involved in a family business need to hear!"

    -Dick Muth, President and CEO of Muth Electric

  • "There is nobody more prepared to write about the saga of a great Texas family than Doug Box. His legendary father Cloyce is like someone out of central casting. And what happened to Doug and his three brothers is something out of a best-selling novel. Get ready to shake your head in pure amazement”

    -Skip Hollandsworth, Executive Editor, Texas Monthly Magazine

  • "I was on the board with Cloyce and knew him well, the story that Doug has put together is one that captures the raw emotion of a family fractured in the loss of their patriarch and the turbulent journey they have weathered to rebuild."

    -Roger Staubach, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Executive Chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle

  • "Poignant lessons for families in business together. Doug Box's chronicle of the turmoil his own family endured serves asa insightful example of what not to do when in business with your family."

    -Thomas O. Hicks, Chairman of Hicks Holdings, and former owner of the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars

  • "A powerful lesson for anyone considering going into business with their family. Readers can learn from the mistakes Doug Box and his family made that nearly cost them both their family business and their family dynamic."

    -Harlan Crow

  • "Doug's presentation is incredible-he tells an enchanting Texas tale that turns into a Shakespearean tragedy, ultimately culminating in a phoenix-like rising from the ashes as Doug seeks to redeem his sorrow by vaccinating others."

    -William J Worthington, PhD Director of the Institute for Family Business at Baylor University

  • "Doug's experience contains a lesson for all; his presentation is both sobering and captivating! I've seen it twice, and I left with new insight and an enlightened perspective each time. You don't have to have a family business to learn a valuable lesson from his dynamic presentation. His unfortunate story should be required listening for anyone with a family legacy to consider."

    -Byron Thorsen, Managing Director of Wellspring Associates

TEXAS PATRIARCH: A LEGACY LOST 

BY: DOUGLAS D BOX

Cloyce Box was larger than life. He left his career as a Pro Bowl wide receiver for the Detroit Lions to rise to corporate fame and extravagant wealth in construction and the oil and gas industries. His sprawling estate in Frisco, Texas, was used as the original Southfork Ranch in the television soap opera Dallas.

Cloyce ran both his companies and his family with a firm hand and inextricably linked the two by raising his sons in the business. When he finally passed, he left a wake of collapsing relationships at home and in the boardroom. Doug Box’s latest book Texas Patriarch has been rated on the Amazon Bestseller list in two different categories. 

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CUTTER FRISCO: GROWING UP ON THE ORIGINAL SOUTHFORK RANCH

BY: DOUGLAS D BOX

I once had a horse named Cutter Frisco. Well, he wasn’t exactly my horse. He actually belonged to my father, but I sure thought of him as mine. I was the one who took care of him, fed him, and washed him. I was the one who rode him most days.

Cutter Frisco was a gold-colored gelding and his father was the legendary championship-cutting horse, Cutter Bill, so it seemed…

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ABOUT DOUGLAS D BOX

Doug Box – family business advisor, author and public speaker – has entertained audiences around the country at family business forums and as a guest lecturer at top universities.  Through his thoughtful presentations, he tells his own family’s incredible story: “Texas Patriarch – The Rise and Fall of a Family Business,” disclosing his unique insight on family business growth, successes and failures.

Doug published his book, Cutter Frisco, Growing up on the Original Southfork Ranch in 2014, and he is due to release his next book in 2016: Texas Patriarch – A Legacy Lost.  Doug has been featured in a number of newspaper and magazine articles, and has made appearances on network television and radio.

In 2005, Doug formed Box Family Advisors, based in Dallas, Texas to help privately held family businesses with succession planning, corporate governance and dispute resolution.

 

 

 

 

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