And yet most of us go about leading and managing our families with almost no formal context. We don’t take time to explicitly decide who we are, what we stand for, what we want, and how we’re going to go about succeeding and thriving as a family. Why don’t we? Because we don’t think of our families as the organizations they are, in need of leadership and planning and strategy. We also feel a little awkward or embarrassed by taking a somewhat formal approach to managing our families, deciding that it sounds silly or overly structured. Finally, we somehow fail to see the cost of our chaos, and
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