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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea
I said it creates rifts, at first because how to you evaluate their performance such as my sister's who means well but based on what I said would not be a suitable choice. They don't all have to be irrational. Everyone experiences emotion, some just suppress it, so I won't say emotional.
So as a general statement, I think it's still true and I think it's more that some are exceptions. JMO. I used to work in a family owned business and the two brothers fought over money all the time. Naturally with the door shut but you could hear the yelling. At another one, the mother didn't have a key position. At another one, where my ex worked, everyone knew no one could ever reach the top levels as it would go to the owner's sons. So there are other issues that don't involved irrationality or emotion.
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Because they're irrational. The rational thing to do is, gross revenue is X profit margin is Y, overhead is Z. The remainder of Y-Z is what we have to discretion to spend, retain, or take out of the business. One of the two is dissenting from rational behavior.
And the real answer is you have to line out a strategy and the associated metrics ahead of time so douchebags aren't always whaling about mistreatment. If it's all laid out ahead of time, you just have to work within the system. The less structure there is the more trust, communication, and ability to come to an agreement is required.
And I people are dragging family issues to work, they're being emotional vaginas. If there are issues
because It's family they were going to be there regardless, so it isn't the business that caused it.
Business relations with family shouldn't be any different than business with any other person. If everybody in the relationship acts like a professional, there are no problems. Drag estrogen or testosterone driven irrationality or General ****tardery to work, there's going to be problems. Family or not. It's just that family problems follow you home.
tl;dr: The family problems you bring up are the fault of people being stupid. Not because they are in business and family members.