50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #10 Behavioural Discord
Families are always “interesting”, due to dynamic interplays between the diverse personalities that make up the group – as manifested by their behaviours towards each...
Author : Jon Kenfield
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #9 Relationship Interplays
Family Business can have a “force multiplier” effect on family relationships, especially when interpersonal relationship issues present in the family, often built over many years...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #8 Divorce & Separation
Australia 2019: 113,815 marriages registered; 49,116 divorces granted. We’re marrying later (32 for males, 30 for females), and more couples are living together for several...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #7 Equal Ain’t Equitable
One of the most common causes of family business conflict arises from (innocently) confusing equality (providing equal benefits), with equity (providing fair treatment). On careful...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #6 In-Laws, Out-Laws & Blended Families
All forms of matrimonial relationship can create conflicts for business families – with increasingly complicated family structures resulting in a bewildering variety of happy, working,...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #5 Fossilised Leaders
“Fossilisation” is the process of rusting in place in a business leadership role, by becoming more averse to change and innovation. It’s usually caused by...
For Want Of A Family Plan
According to an old proverb: “For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #4 Unmet Expectations & Broken Promises
When people feel betrayed, or unfairly treated, by people they believed they could trust – frustration, resentment, anger, and a strong desire for revenge, are...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #3 Human Diversity: Ages & Stages
We don’t pay enough attention to the effect of different ages and stages on people’s thinking and behaviours. This raises real issues when family members...
50 Common Causes Of Family Business Conflict – #2 Effects Of Personality Differences
Personality differences have huge impacts on the nature and quality of interactions between family members – in and out of a family business – and...