In 2023, I launched the Generational Business Podcast with a simple but urgent question: how do family businesses actually thrive in Nigeria?
I wanted to know if other next-generation leaders were wrestling with the same tensions I was wrestling with, and more importantly, how they were navigating them. These weren’t questions I could answer from a textbook. They came from lived experience, from sitting inside a family business and feeling the weight of legacy, expectation, and the complexity that comes when business and family share the same roof.
Two years later, I found myself at Harvard Business School for a course, surrounded by family business leaders from across the world, still searching for answers to the same questions.
What I discovered first surprised me
I expected regional differences. I expected the Nigerian experience to feel distinct from what a business family in Europe or Latin America would describe. What I
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