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Conclusion

The Good Journey, Together

In this book, we provide you with many ways to understand and improve your family business. But what do you do now? Where you do start your work?

As an individual, you play an important role in your family business. Start by recognizing how you can be a better owner, future owner, member of the business family, trusted employee, or adviser and how you personally can build better relationships. What specific behaviors could you change to improve these roles and relationships? It may not be easy, and it won’t always be fun. But we promise you, you will never regret working harder on the relationships that matter to you.

Although you can apply some of the lessons of this book directly, remember that family ...