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The Process

8/6/2016

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Successful family-owned businesses and especially those that have multi-generations of family members working together in a family understand it’s NOT the decisions they make together, the values they choose together, and the accomplishments they make together…that carry the most weight.

As one of my favorite client's like to say, "The food tastes so much better when everyone helps make it.".

True.
The skills and experience gained while working together… as family members and business colleagues…create far more value to you and your family members.  The process and experience are enhanced when you all seek answers together, talk together, learn together, struggle together, get to know one another better, grow more tolerant of one another and learn how to come to agreement as a group.  These are the kinds of things that happen when you engage in such processes as developing policies, doing collaborative planning or simply enjoying a family reunion.
​Because process is so important, successful families sometimes make the assumption that whatever policies or statements they create today can be changed three years or five years or a generation from now.  Some families believe that policies should have sunset clauses, perhaps extinguishing them every generation. They tell the next generation, sometimes in a preamble, “These policies are important to us and work for us, but if you just embrace them as they are, you will miss the most important part: going through the process of creating your own.”

Until next time…

​"Coming together is a beginning.

"Keeping together is progress.

"Working together is success."

              - Henry Ford


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