The umbilical cord
It is extraordinary how many of us are still attached to parental dictats long after they have ceased to have any value. And now after all your family members and mine have split up again to return to their lives after Christmas, how much stuff is left unresolved?I remember a family wedding twenty years ago. I was recently divorced and my mother had decided to put my ex wife on the top table accompanied by my two daughters aged seven and five. My table was near the exit to the marquee.
It was quite a long day and sometime in the afternoon I realised the need to get back to Hereford where I had a date that evening. I walked up to the top table and bent down to advise my mother and she hissed, “Don’t be so silly Timothy, we haven’t even had the speeches yet! You sit down”
I turned round and walked out of the marquee and in that split second I knew that I had, after 40 years, cut the umbilical cord forever.
I work with a lot of family businesses and there are many people out there, some well over the age of forty, that still have some work to do in this area. Only when the cut is made do people really find themselves, to have the independence to do, think and behave in an authentic manner. Authenticity is key to business success.
Labels: business being fit for purpose, conflict resolution, family business issues
posted by Tim @ 1:05 AM
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