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Very common that the children don't wish to run the family business – I always wondered why. Wonder how much things would have turned out differently had the Dad introduced the company to his son at a young age and "groomed" him to be the future leader of the organization.

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interacting with parents as an adult is weird, you're expected to be perpetually deferential to them simply because you started your relationship that way. (perhaps even more so in asian cultures like mine and the author's). I'm not surprised that people would rather not have even their work lives pushed into that framework.

it's a luxury that modern life affords us. Traditionally boys would go into what their father has done, as he did his father and his father before him. It’s only relatively recently that society affords children an opportunity to branch out from the circumstances of our birth. The idea of royal succession seems less weird when the rest of the whole world is also organized that way

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