Family run businesses

Every business has to solve problems around roles, money, and disagreement. Family businesses have to solve the same problems while protecting relationships that existed long before the business did — and that need to survive long after any single decision is forgotten. Business Basics for Family-Run Businesses covers what changes when your co-founder is also your sibling, your employee is also your kid, or your business partner is also your spouse.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Understand why family businesses break rules that work everywhere else

• Separate family roles from business roles clearly

• Have the money conversations families tend to avoid

• Set boundaries without the guilt that usually comes with them

• Start the succession conversation before it's forced by circumstance

• Keep business disagreements from becoming family ones

Part of the Business Basics That Work series: practical, no-fluff guides for freelancers, local shop owners, and small business owners who'd rather get it done than read a textbook.