Anyway, the family council and Resolution Number 5 never came to much. Let's write it off. He drew a thick black line across the page. My brother, my sister and I had a meeting and agreed that the business really ought to have those plans. I waited expectantly.
Big changes take time.
I mean, we'd thought about planning before, but this year we really agreed to do some of it. Tell you what. Maybe we can make a resolution for 1998 about actually starting the plans. A resolution is a statement of firm intention, a commitment to act, to do things differently and better. A family business's New Year's resolution, or a resolution made any time of year, is a sort of promise that the business and the family make to themselves.