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I’ve wondered for a while, now, whether there is a co-relation between families who required their younger children to perform chores throughout their childhood, to those children becoming adult children and being prepared to take on roles and tasks inside of a family business, that they might not like to do, but which they understand helps to push the business forward.
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It’s the middle of the night. You reach a certain age, where a bathroom break, in the dark is required. Perhaps that’s too much information?
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Woohoo! 500 editions. That’s a pretty phenomenal effort in my books, even if I say so myself. For almost a decade, I’ve been putting these newsletters out each week, save for our traditional (at least in Australia) two week Christmas shutdown, each year, surely itself one of the most glorious times of the year, especially so in the city I love, Sydney.
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In business, we’re presented with opportunities, and options, on a daily basis. Some of them come from outside, be it from observing what others are doing, or someone making a suggestion, that triggers an idea for us. Others are moments of clarity that pop into our head. A new product or service line. New potential employees, that could add value to our business. A different way of doing things, that might improve output, or efficiency.
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I was reading an article in the Australian Financial Review recently about the Australian tech giant, Atlassian. In essence, it was suggested the purpose and values the owners started Atlassian with seem to have been lost, in their quest to get bigger.
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Sometime, I can’t figure out if family business owners are lazy, or scared, when it comes to marketing their businesses.
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I’m 12 or 13 year old, hanging out with some family friends during the school holidays. Their eldest is the same age as me. He’s more of an acquaintance than a friend, but we knew each other reasonably well.
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I’m working with a family business at the moment, that I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for more than three decades. Over the last 10 years, we haven’t seen much of each other, however a reach out last year, has put us on the path of working together to build a business that transitions it not only to a new model, but also enables the next generation to take part.
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A disruptive staff member leaves a family business, and continues to lob grenades, not only on their way out the door, but from afar afterwards. Inside a business of 40 staff, the act of war, can be both distracting, and destructive.
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In a career spanning almost four decades, I’ve worked with hundreds of family business and, by extension, hundreds of families.