50 Common Causes of Family Business Conflict ... and how to deal with them

Emotional Resilience and “broken wing” syndrome - Parents & Family.  

• Emotional Resilience = coping with stress and minimising anxiety.   Epidemic.  

• Broken Wing Syndrome = parent(s) protecting weaker children.    

• Contributed to by genetics, home, school & social evironments, birth order, parenting skills, domineering parent(s) and/or aggressive siblings.  

• Parental protectionist style spills from family into business, rifts between siblings (fairness) & between parents (merit & worth).  

• Solution (2): focus on 

(a) sibling interests and 

(b) parents’ relationship with particular reference to the broken wing motivator.    Siblings:  negotiate to self-interest.  Parents:  get their thinking straight between family & business & support for appropriate help for weak child.