![Keeping the Peace Is Critical to Preserving a Family Business](https://cole-pumper.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pumper.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fpum-10-19_building_the_business_-_mitzi_perdue.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=620&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=1024&s=693088831c051a8da3b43e604eac67cf)
Mitzi Perdue is a speaker, family-business owner and author of How to Make Your Family Business Last. For more information, visit www.mitziperdue.com.
There’s no such thing as a family business without conflict. If you search “family business feud” on Google, in less than a second, you’ll get roughly 1.2 million hits. And that, of course, is the tiniest fraction of the number of family business disputes that show up in...