Own a Family Business? Tips to Survive the Holidays
This week's guest expert is Dr. Maria Marshall. She is a professor at Purdue University and the James and Lois Ackerman Endowed Chair in Agricultural Economics. Dr. Marshall brings her expertise on rural business development to The Grower and The Economist. Many small businesses are family businesses, including the two businesses that your hosts grew up in. We all know that when things are going well everything is easy and when the challenges arise things get hard and dark quickly. This dynamic can be more complicated during the holidays, when families and co-workers/owners are together in a personal setting. Dr. Marshall shares advice and tips for avoiding these dark places and provides thought-provoking questions for families to start asking themselves.
Find more of Dr. Marshall's tools and services:
Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD.org)
Director, Purdue Institute for Family Business (purdue.ag/fambiz)
Editor, Choices Magazine (AAEA)
