If you've ever been part of a family business, you'd know the approach to handling things is quite a bit different. When family dynamics come into play, you end

If you've ever been part of a family business, you'd know the approach to handling things is quite a bit different. When family dynamics come into play, you end up having to tolerate things and compromise things in ways that would be considered unacceptable in a corporation. You find out your brother is pocketing part of the tips that are supposed to go to the back of the house. Your son has been accused of sexual harassment by one of the waitresses. What do you do? You're not going to "take it to HR". Any action you take here is going to be painful and is going to be challenged by other members of the family with an equal stake. So I immediately recoil when I hear that I'm "family". Oh, you're going to look the other way when I get caught embezzling? We'll work something out when I get caught the second time? Didn't think so.