Hello.
I'm Janmejaya Sinha.
I'm a co-author of a book,
Untangling Conflict
- An Introspective Guide to Families in Business,
together with Carol Liao
Ryoji Kimura,
and Brittany Montgomery.
The intent of our book
is best captured,
in a comment one of the patriarchs,
who ran one of these family businesses
when he said,
“Running a business
is easy,
running a family
is hard,
but running a family business
is the hardest thing of all.”
Now you and I we all live in families,
and we all know
that families fight.
So the purpose and intent of our book
has been to
mitigate,
avoid,
find strategies
to manage conflict.
And in this book
what we try and do,
is first ask introspective questions for
the families
to answer –
What is your family?
Who's in? Who's out?
and what are the sources of conflict
that families face.
And when we went into it, we found three
disparate and distinct sources of
conflict.
Have a read.
We have created
a fictitious family
where many of these conflicts are
captured
and suggested ways in which
you can mitigate these conflicts.