Category: “Family Business” … makes no sense!
Cause #21: Parenting Styles and Practices
Why Parenting Matters in Family Business Conflict (Observations – not medical opinions) One of the most persistent and underestimated root causes of conflict in family businesses originates not in boardrooms, ownership structures, or succession plans—but in the family home, decades earlier. Many of the conflicts that surface in adult family business relationships are not new. […]
Read More“Family Business” … makes no sense! Introduction (Part 2)
(sans knowledge, focus, skills, and discipline) Conflict (noun): “a serious disagreement or argument between people with opposing views, opinions, values or principles – often over a protracted period”. Conflict (verb): “different, incompatible, at variance, opposing, clashing”. There is no family on the planet, now or ever, that entirely avoids conflict between its members. That’s not, […]
Read More“Family Business” … makes no sense! Introduction (Part 1)
(sans knowledge, focus, skills, and discipline). Introduction (Part 1) Every family business has a business family sitting behind it, but the basic concept behind “Family Business” actually makes no sense, because every commercial driver needed to make a good business conflicts with the human success factors that make families happy: This creates a huge conundrum: […]
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