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Hello.

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I'm Janmejaya Sinha.

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I'm a co-author of a book,

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Untangling Conflict

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- An Introspective Guide to Families in Business,

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together with Carol Liao

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Ryoji Kimura,

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and Brittany Montgomery.

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The intent of our book

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is best captured,

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in a comment one of the patriarchs,

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who ran one of these family businesses

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when he said,

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“Running a business

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is easy,

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running a family

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is hard,

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but running a family business

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is the hardest thing of all.”

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Now you and I we all live in families,

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and we all know

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that families fight.

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So the purpose and intent of our book

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has been to

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mitigate,

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avoid,

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find strategies

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to manage conflict.

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And in this book

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what we try and do,

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is first ask introspective questions for

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the families

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to answer –

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What is your family?

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Who's in? Who's out?

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and what are the sources of conflict

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that families face.

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And when we went into it, we found three

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disparate and distinct sources of

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conflict.

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Have a read.

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We have created

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a fictitious family

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where many of these conflicts are

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captured

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and suggested ways in which

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you can mitigate these conflicts.