Our family business has been run informally for years with my dad making all the major financial decisions but now my sister and I work here full-time and we need real salaries and profit-sharing but asking for that feels like challenging his authority over something he built.
More people experience this than they realize.
Moving from informal family arrangements to formal business structures requires redistributing financial authority in ways that can threaten established family hierarchies.
“Where Are You with Money and power — who controls resource flows?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.