Family Business as Paradox

A family business, by its very nature, is a contradiction. Successful, multi-generation family businesses have figured out how to manage these contradictions and in many cases turn them into a secret of their success.
The first step is to suspend judgment about contradictions and recognize that we have been brought up and educated to treat all problems the same, when not all problems are the same. Not all can be solved, and the remainder must be managed or coped with. In order to do this, we ...