Direction – solution of problems related to family business. At the
beginning you were happy about it. Maybe you became the first
businessman in your environment, among friends and peers. Everybody was
envious, you were adored.
From long ago family business has had many advantages. Besides
traditions and secrets of ancient recipes it carries: the traditions of
obedience and invisible hierarchy, old wounds, insularity and simple
hatred. It happens that “a rake effect” in such “workshops“ works more
precisely than watches produced in them. Sure, there are many pluses –
a name, reputation, and own in-group, but what to do if it is a small
ghetto? What if you have grown in it or came there not knowing or
imagining any other alternatives? What if for many years you have been
doing things that do not bring any joy or satisfaction? It seems to you
that it is a road without a bypass line? It is a place where everybody
is tired of everybody and where everybody became dependent on everybody
long ago. But how to admit this? How would society, close people and
family react? You are ashamed of betraying them, losing everything and
becoming thrown aside by society? And what if there are three brothers
in a family? Then the youngest will get the lead... perhaps only after
he is retired?
Some people from kindergarten times are tired of wearing clothes of
their elder brothers, others enjoy “wearing” their thoughts for the
whole life. Some people just look at their leader, others become
leaders themselves. When solving family business questions, first of
all, we seek to understand the nature of the structure, and only then
the functions and roles of its members. You will probably ask: “What
should we do?” Usually, just not let to huff yourself, or at least
become visible and focused, express your opinion and/or disapproval
aloud, and sometimes just disagree, get rid of the bonds and run away…
Alternative conflict resolution