From Invisible to Active

Listen to Dr. Lee explain how her mother became active in prioritizing meritocracy rather than entitlement in the family business. In a family business it is important to ensure that both family members and non-family members, are working equally hard in achieving the goals of the business.

Traditional Hakka family, you are the queen of the household, right? But that’s about all. My mother became the chairman of the old folks home, and I’m really proud of her because, I think she must have subdued her own inner capability. She came out perfect. She sort of rearranged the board of the committee that runs the old folks home. Previously, it was all my father’s friends, you know, please come in and help out. She says, if you are not contributing, I’m going to change you. So she brought in very young people a new lawyer, a new accountant, a new maid, you know they have domestic help, agency, engineer, so she changed the whole board from people that have the funds, to people who are working.