How do I run a big company without losing my family the way my dad almost did?

Build the family commitments into the calendar before the company fills it. Kris Kluver, in The Dysfunctional Family Office, has Gail Mitchell name this when she accepts the CEO role. She wants the challenge. She wants to take the company further than her father ever dreamed. She doesn't want success to cost her the family. The clarity matters because most ambitious leaders accept the trade-off as inevitable. It isn't. The next generation has tools the founder didn't. Better team structures. Technology that handles what used to require physical presence. Coaches and peer groups built for this exact challenge. Time blocks for family that the company has to work around, not the other way. The discipline isn't easy. It's also the difference between thriving and the version your father almost lived.