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		<title>Leave &#8220;Boot Camp&#8221; to the Military&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about how my experience has been different from my sons, both of whom work for larger companies. My son Brad is a manager for a national office supply retail chain, the other, Jeff, for a large locally based national carrier. My son Jeff has recently changed jobs and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dust Clouds Do Not Equal Progress…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something happened the other day that got me thinking about the experience that I had over a decade ago pulling my father’s company out of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy or “Reorganization” as he liked to call it. He had been in this situation for 4 years when I joined his company. I thought I was joining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not All Family Is Familistic&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Familistic is a term that all family business owners need to have burned into their conscious.
Familistic : a social pattern in which the family assumes a position of ascendance over individual interests. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, 2005.
One of the great challenges of owning a family business is the necessity to care for the business [...]]]></description>
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