In relation to other individuals:

1. What does « Following my parents’ path » or « Following other family members’ path » mean for you?

In relation to other individuals:

2. Are you following or would you aspire to follow your parents or other family members’ path:

• in continuity?
• in disruption? i.e. wanting to take the family business or its endeavors in new directions or to reshape them significantly?

In relation to the family as a whole:

3. What drives you and energizes you about your family business or family endeavors? (history, values, industry in which it operates, working with family members? other?)

In relation to the family as a whole:

4. How would you like to carry your family’s legacy?

In relation to the family as a whole:

5. How would you want to participate?

In relation to the family as a whole:

6. What does your family or family business celebrate? What does it reward? How can you fit in some of these celebrations and rewards?

In relation to the family as a whole:

7. What are some of the values and focuses that are important in your family business? For example:

• To work
• To count for some form of contribution
• To do charity work
• To generate money

In relation to the family as a whole:

8. What do your parents or the elder generation value in your work experience?

• To be trained/mentored by others, or outside of the family business?
• To be trained/mentored by them?
• To ‘sink or swim’ on your own?

In relation to the family as a whole:

9. In your family enterprise, what is or what should be the « harmony » rules to work together as family members?

In relation to the family as a whole:

10. What appears to be the most powerful collective investment(s) in the success of your family? Do you agree with what these choices of investment are?

In relation to the family as a whole:

11. What do you think are some of the implicit rules of working in your family? For example:

• More will be expected or demanded of next generation members than any other employees

In relation to the family as a whole:

12. What are the key ingredients to your family « glue »? What holds you strongly together?

In relation to the family as a whole:

13. What is your opinion on the following messages found in the video:

• The incredible glue that holds good family businesses together is what makes their success and the well-being of the family.

In relation to the family as a whole:

14. What is your opinion on the following messages found in the video:

• Legal contracts don’t help you as a family, because you are either committed to working together and making it work, or you are not.