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

Audio No 34: Family Dysfunction.

• Family Dysfunction: A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehaviour, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents, occur continuously and regularly.

• Family dysfunction occurs when the family system is broken. There’s a high chance of conflict developing if the dysfunction is allowed to spill beyond personal disruption into the wider family and/or into the family’s business activities.

• Systems need to be self-organising to ensure survival.

• In families, excuses and accommodations are often made, which unbalance the system because more resources
(financial / emotional etc) are sent in one direction - which causes greater unbalance, conflict and dysfunction.

Solution:

• Identify signs of dysfunction and respond promptly and decisively, in both family and business. The signs are usually products of lengthy states of being - so they won’t be fixed quickly, or through inexpert attention.

• Engage independent / external / expert resources to help.

“We cannot solve great problems at the same level of thinking that created them” - Einstein.

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