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Article: 10 golden rules of family business: tips on how to get along with family members to continue the success of the business. (Managing Your Business).(Column)
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- Plumbing & Mechanical
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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I was at the wheel of my dad's car and we were driving to our next call. I was 22 and had just joined my older brothers and dad in the family business. Dad and I spent a lot of time together looking at jobs.
Normally, we'd ride together and focus on the technical side of the trade. But, he never missed the opportunity to talk to me about the other things it takes to run a company. My business education started when I was a little boy and I'd ride along with dad to a lot of the "middle of the night" service calls that he had to handle from our home.
Dad was patient. He allowed my brothers and me to sit in on a lot of his meetings while we were still just ...