Good to be Home for the Holidays

Ah, the holidays. Those joyous times when family members gather around the dinner table in Rockwellian tableau and share glad tidings.

But for members of family businesses, the holidays present a special set of perplexities. With relationships strained from longsimmering personal feuds and business rivalries, the forced frivolity can quickly go up in smoke. Many a hostess will shudder at the story of Willie Farah, embattled head of the Farah clothing firm: When his estranged son showed up at Christmas dinner last year, Willie abruptly rose from the table, stalked out of the house, and sat in a parked car for three hours.

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