How Can You Handle Conflict in a Family Business?

Listen to Julia Ferreira talk about approaching issues with an objective stance and not mixing the business emotions with family ones.

Instead of trying to be like, emotional about it, or saying I’m right or you’re right, we try to really write down the pros and cons of that idea, let’s say, and we’ll go at it with an objective stance. Ok, do we really think this is going to work, is it not going to work, that’s how we try to do it. Because, or else, it’s true, you would just be like, no I’m older, I pick, or, I’m younger and I know what I’m doing and I’ll pick, so, we look at it objectively. You really have to just trust each other and you have to know when to separate business life from family life, you just have to be honest and not mix the two, because the minute you mix the two, it starts to become more and more complicated. So really look at it as two different sections of your life. That way you avoid hurting each other’s feelings or transposing all these different emotions into the family and different things like that.