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		<title>Leave &#8220;Boot Camp&#8221; to the Military&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Dancing…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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