Always include cartoons, metaphors, songs and video clips in the Family Business Labs Forum to challenge yours, your peers’ and the Lab’s Community’s ideas about these questions:
1. How would describe the culture of your family’s business?
The culture of my family business is a bit traditional. They don't have family women on board.
2. In what ways are your family’s purpose and values reflected in this business culture?
My family's got a traditional background. All my dads brothers are more than 8 year+ elder than him.
3. How does this stage of your family business’ lifecycle contribute, affect or erode the business and ownership dimensions of your business?
I think its high time we should concentrate on some modern ways of working with business. Otherwise, it'll erode the business.
4. I will have opened my chain retail stores, and all of that would be in modern ways.
In India, we've always been prepared what to do and how do you do. We have been told that you'll start working on this specific job and you'll get x amount of money.
I can relate to the dynamics of male domination in the business but it is not like a restriction and can be changed if the women want active participation. I infact want to work on improvement of working conditions of the business to improve the amount of participation. As elimination of women from the workforce leads to the elimination of some core emphatical values which can contribute to the unity of work. As for the traditional background, I believe tradition is more connected to the values than the bloodline or involvement of the close-family members.