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Is your Family Business Dysfunctional?

By Kristina R Haymes

One of the areas of mediation and conflict management that I focus on is family business disputes. Family business disputes are particularly appropriate for a mediation or a conflict management intervention because the mix of personal issues, family relationships, family history, business issues and all the rest create anxiety and heated emotions on the personal and professional level of unprecedented proportions. I was re-reading through Patrick Lencioni’s book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and I was thinking about the application of the dysfunctions to the family business team and other closely held business partnerships. Lencioni’s premise is that businesses succeed when they operate as a well functioning team.  The book goes through a “fable” about a high tech company in California that has a new CEO and her teaching the business team about the five dysfunctions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Mediation Marketing Tips on July 26, 2007 (boomark / email).