What is it that makes your family unique from other families?

Have you ever considered that question?  Until reading Patrick Lencioni’s book The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family, I had not given much serious consideration to that question either.  In his book, Lencioni tells the story of a wife and mother trying to come to grips with the comment, delivered by her husband, that if his clients ran their business like they run their family, they would be out of business.

As the story unfolds, the wife wrestles with this challenge to the point that she develops a method of clarifying the purpose for a family based on her husbands corporate consulting strategies.

By now I am sure that you can tell that this is not your typical parenting book.  Lencioni brings not his clinical understanding of family therapy or marriage counseling to this book, but rather approaches from a unique direction.  If you are open to considering what the business world might have to say to help you get a better control over decision making in your family or if you are just curious about the other two questions, then get yourself a copy.  It is well worth the read.