If you are part of the “family” that owns a family business I am sure you have felt overwhelmed by the amount of “dancing” that you must do.

You must dance for your customers, for your vendors, for your financial “business partners,” for the regulatory agencies, for other family members and especially for your employees.

When it comes to your employees, you find that you must dance faster, longer, more enthusiastically, and better than anyone must at the company. In addition, if you are a second-generation family member, you find that there is no amount of dancing, no type of dancing, no pace of dancing, and no quality of dancing that will please some of the employees, customers, vendors or any other of the company’s “business partners.” (more…)