7 Lessons in Harmony for Family StartupsRunning a family business can unite members of a family but it can also tear them apart. Here are some tips keeping the peace, both at home and at the office.
This story appears in theMarch 2014issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
Brothers Gerald and Carl Huber needed a succession plan. Together they owned an agricultural business in southern Indiana that had been in their family for five generations, since the mid-19th century. And they were not getting any younger.
Problem was, Gerald and Carl each had four children, and the brothers did not believe the business could support them all. They resolved to anoint one child from each family to succeed them. It was a judgment that might have given Solomon fits, and a dilemma that illustrates the thorny issues that inevitably arise within every family business.
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