You Never Really Leave the Business

Listen to Randy explain how in his family, conversation among members predominantly revolves around the business. Family businesses are unique concerning how they balance family and business. In several family businesses, including Randy's, a strong focus on business can increase family cohesion and create common goals.

I think the reality is, at least in our case, you never really left the business. It didn’t matter where we were; conversations always came back to the business in some way. Even at a family barbeque, as you mentioned, we’d always talk business so our dealings when it came with that, it was difficult to take one hat off and put another one on. And I don’t’ say that in a negative way, because we always got along well, but conversations inevitably led back to the business, it’s just how we operated. I think just in our case, each case is going to be unique, and in our particular case, because we had great cohesion, we just always had a sense of we had a common goal as a group, as a family, as a small-ish family. So it’s difficult for me to say, we just always seemed to have things that were working for us, so we didn’t know any other way. For us, it just kind of happened that way. Key Takeaways • Every family is unique in how they balance family and business • Having a common goal can increase family cohesion