Family Governance Helping Decision-Making

On the family side, we have been involved with a Family Council, we started a Family Council in the late 80s actually, using outside facilitators and we just feel that that has been absolutely critical. A Family Council doesn’t guarantee success in the family business and in terms of family relationships, but we do feel that without the Family Council, the chances of success go down a long way. We just think that between the outside advisory people we have, having an outside facilitator on our Family Council, that that is extremely critical to how we are able to function together as a family.