Word: brother-in-law
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...family companies struggle just to succeed. The struggle places tons of pressure on the family unit, within which there's always plenty of emotional inventory anyway. But growth is a huge problem too, and managing it presents family firms with rosier but no less complex issues. "My brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman Marcus. "Dealing...
Like an increasing number of business owners who need to resolve conflicts, Kerr hired a family therapist, Deborah Bright of New York City, to sit down with him, his wife, mother, sister and brother-in-law and hash things...
...mother Norma sold decorative strings of chile peppers on the street in El Paso, Texas, the company within a decade was selling $1.5 million annually of food products such as salsas. But operations were tilting out of control, so mother and son brought in Kerr's brother-in-law Sean Henschel, a management consultant, to run things. Park's sister Monica also came to work in the company...
...will. We are very close to locking in a public impression about the President that isn't good and isn't temporary." But any kind of question-and-answer session would be a disaster in the making. When it comes to those drug runners and con men his brother-in-law sponsored for pardons, "what is he gonna say? He can't get through that." For the moment, Clinton is holding off on a big confessional. "He's decided instead," says another adviser, "to just call every American, one person at a time...
What really threw Mrs. Clinton off stride last week was her brother's decision to accept $400,000 to lobby for two controversial clemency petitions: those of Carlos Vignali, a Los Angeles drug dealer, and A. Glenn Braswell, a Florida marketer of dubious health treatments. Rodham, who often spent the night at the White House, insisted last week that he purposely never spoke to his sister or his brother-in-law about his clients...