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The Business Family
Four Disruptions You Will Face and What To Do about Them
As gravel spun from under his wheels, thirty-four-year-old Jack Johnson turned his Ford F-150 out of the company’s sugar beet processing plant just east of Fort Collins, Colorado. Jack’s father and uncle were co-owners of the family’s third-generation food manufacturing company. Possibly distracted by the argument he had had with his uncle moments ago, Jack looked to the right only before pulling out onto the main road. Tragically, an unseen semitrailer hit Jack’s truck and killed him instantly.
Jack’s death was painful for the entire family, not least because he was so young. But the family’s grieving extended far beyond that. Unspoken blame for the circumstances ...
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