Family-owned or family-controlled businesses are companies whose boards are dominated by the members of a specific family, and families own the majority of businesses worldwide: According to the US Bureau of the Census, 90% of American businesses are family-owned or controlled. …

I remember reading “human-beings can learn to read thanks to their ability to notice coincidences because it helps them establish similarities and distinguish differences” in a psychology magazine while I was in high school. It appears that patterns and noticing regularities helped us survive, too, by enabling us to point…