Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term strategic and competitive advantage and the family will remain committed to continuity.
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Acknowledging both --
Which to choose : family or business? --
Tradition and change in family firms --
Predictable paradoxes across the generations --
Predictable conflicts in the intersections --
Managing both --
A continuum for addressing paradoxes --
One key tool: the polarity map(tm) --
Experience the power of paradox --
Appendix A: historical perspective on paradox --
Appendix B: paradoxes in business literature --
Appendix C: family first : business first assessment --
Appendix D: more on polarity maps(tm).