Anxiety and depression are crippling, difficult situations in family business. Learn how to avoid them, and how to deal with them when required to do so.
Practice keeping healthy boundaries between your family business and your family life.
Most of us have experienced challenges and frustrations in our work lives. That’s a natural part of life. No job’s without its difficulties. When you or someone you love is involved with a family business the normal day-to-day challenges too often bleed over into your personal life and can become a family issue. When you […]
Weekly Deliberate Practice: The one thing the family business leader rarely gets
It can be lonely at the top of any business, especially a family business. Imagine how hard it is to make business decisions that involve so many of the people near and dear to you. I’ve been on the difficult end of those decisions. Like when Uncle Walsh chose to split my sales territory to […]
Family Biz Deliberate Practice of the Week: Train your mind to focus on the positives
This week watch yourself closely and keep training your mind to focus on the positives in your family business. I’m sure they are there if you look close enough. We are creatures of habit and whatever we focus on we get more of. The more your mind takes you to the negative the more you […]
What Not To Do- let different personalities drive you crazy in the family business
The sooner you can learn to appreciate different personality styles the sooner you’ll be on a path to success in the family business. Everyone is wired differently. Introverts, extroverts, big picture thinkers, detail oriented, you know who you are. It’s amazing to me how consistently this issue causes such angst and friction in family businesses. I […]
