Family Business: Sibling EditionOne of the most time-worn pieces of advice from successful business leaders is the suggestion to keep separation between one’s personal life and professional life. There are some, however, who can’t separate business from family even if they wanted to.
One of the most time-worn pieces of advice from successful business leaders is the suggestion to keep separation between one’s personal life and professional life. This concept is articulated in a number of different phrases: “Work-life balance”; “Leave your work at the office”; “Work to live, don’t live to work”—and so on. One goal behind this idea is to prevent friction from personal and family life from affecting one’s professional performance, and vice versa.
Sounds simple enough. There are some, however, who can’t separate business from family even if they wanted to.
For some business professionals, the same vice president who got upset with them for sending the wrong report holds another, much more influential title: brother.
For others, disappointing the company president is bad enough. But when the company president also happens to be your sister, well, that just makes for some awkward holidays.
But if there’s one sentiment that a group of business leaders and entrepreneurs around Topeka all share
in regard to their experience running a business with family, it is that the } positives far outweigh any possible drawbacks.
Mark Ward II & Paige Jones: Data-Tel
Contributing Writer
Adam Vlach has been writing for TK Magazine since 2015. Prior to that, he wrote for MVP magazine, The Topeka Capital-Journal and the Washburn Review. After graduating in 2016 from Washburn University, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he currently works as a publishing manager at a book publishing & media firm.
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