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To those of you for whom asking for help is so difficult, remember this - "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you already are." Nothing is easy!

A key ingredient to taking action is to be sure it is the right action. That means you must identify family goals by building a consensus about the direction everyone wants the family and the business to go in the future.

Much has been written about managing the differences that separate us - however, you will find when you begin the process of having strategic communications among yourselves, that you probably agree on most things, you've just never talked about it, so you don't know it.

Chances are you (along with your advisors) will have to redesign the business organization. Sometimes it must be recreated from the ground up.

This is something to embrace since it is the mission of the business to make the family's dreams come true - not the other way around.

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