Andy Caygeon, a seventh generation farmer whose family farm imploded due to stubbornness, joins us to discuss the word "Stubborn" on family farms. He is the author of many books discussing how changing the mindset of your family farm, can improve your business in all aspects. Over the last fifteen years, he has helped save family farms all over the US and Canada. We discuss the importance of listening to one another, accepting change, and how to turn your stubbornness from a weakness to a strength.
Andy Caygeon, a seventh generation farmer whose family farm imploded due to stubbornness, joins us to discuss the word "Stubborn" on family farms. He is the author of many books discussing how changing the mindset of your family farm, can improve your business in all aspects. Over the last fifteen years, he has helped save family farms all over the US and Canada. We discuss the importance of listening to one another, accepting change, and how to turn your stubbornness from a weakness to a strength.
We discuss how marriage is like farming with family, it's forever and you are committed to it. We to often are narcissist and take each other for granted. One of the biggest struggles Andy see's on family farm is for a father-son relationship to go to a partnership.
Andy address the hardest thing to deal with problems on the farm but the best way, is finding a way to listen and respect each generation, and learn to agree and disagree with each other in a positive way. If your family can question each other in a positive way, that can change your farm dynamic drastically in a such a positive direction. Is shouldn't be about who's idea it is, it should be the best idea wins. This can improve the quality of decision making, rather than complaining about each other and the problems that can turn in to.
To tackle these family relationship problems, Andy looks at four core areas where everyone always has problems. Before you can fix your partnership, you have to fix yourself. You need to identify each other's strengths and weaknesses and learn how to best deal with conflict that can come from people's habits. If you can change a couple habits that are your weaknesses, you can change the dynamic of your family business.
At the ITF Summer Meeting, except a different perspective from Andy, and learn to turn your stubbornness from weakness to strength. He will give you practical habits you can take home and implement in yourself.
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