Sharing Power & Authority

Listen to David Bentall as he discusses sibling partnerships in a family business. The key to a successful sibling partnership is being able to share power and authority. This ability often stems from early family dynamics and history.

David Bentall (7) Sharing power and authority in a family enterprise is a tricky business. But sharing power and authority is about what sibling partnerships are at their essence, it’s sharing. You know when we’re kids we have trouble sharing the bicycle or the piece of pie or whatever it is as kids, if in a family enterprise, siblings can’t learn to share power and authority they really don’t belong together and I think the challenge this family fell apart on and it really came from the baggage from the history.