Multiple hours a day on any of those activities decelerates communication with the family unit and can foster an escape from reality that, in time, becomes unhealthy.

We're local and close. It's a day out and something to do with the family.

Succession, use of outside boards, managing communication -- all of those are related to family businesses as well as private businesses.

We've noted that there are issues and we've been in communication with his family and their representatives. We're working on meeting whatever his needs might be. I'm very confident we're on top of this issue.

You try to overcome this day to day, primarily through communication. They have understood that as much as it hurts, there are things you must slightly turn away from.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...