My brother and I co-founded this company fifteen years ago and now we're both in our fifties talking about succession planning but we have completely different visions for what the company should become after we're gone — he wants to keep it family-only and I think we need outside leadership. We've been dancing around this conversation for months and I can feel it creating distance between us both as business partners and siblings.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who built something together are discovering that their dreams for its future are fundamentally incompatible, and avoiding the conversation is poisoning their present relationship.
“Where Are You with Business legacy — the company that outlasts the founder?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.