Building a family that works is not totally different from a nation that works, because the family is the production factory of the society and once the family works, you can be sure the nation would work. So far, we have examined a few building blocks which are very critical to the foundation of every successful family. However, the biggest challenge we have encountered since we started this series is the unwillingness of our men to sit down to work on some of these concepts which seem to negate what they had been used to and seem to want to challenge their autocratic rule. But I learnt a long time ago that the moment you stop learning, you start dying. If we expect the people around us to change, why would we not be willing to change as men. If you think it is easy for your family to obey your instructions, why don’t you try to obey their desires for one week and see how easy it is to be the led. God did not place you as the head so that you can dominate your family, instead you are there as the head to carry out God’s system of governance as the chief servant of your family and there is no way you won’t mess up your family if you are out of touch with that God. Unfortunately, loads of men who even claim to be religious have mixed culture with that religion and the women seem to have accepted that as their reality with someone suffering in silence while the other brags around that his family is working. How effective is your family when someone is dying so that you can live? A great family is one in which the best interest of every individual is promoted and where the potentials and the highest dreams and aspirations of everyone is realized. Is that the reality in your family?
The next building block for the family is the corporate governance which broadly refers to the mechanisms, processes and relations by which your family is controlled and directed.
What systems of governance do you operate in your family?
To be continued.