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Split decisions: how siblings succeed — and fail — in business together

Family relationships can be a source of both solidarity and tensions, so the ability to define boundaries is crucial

The last time I interviewed property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy together was over a game of Monopoly at One Hyde Park, their then newly built luxury apartments in Knightsbridge, London.

While Monopoly is hardly conducive to family harmony at the best of times, it was striking how close this contest came to descending into bickering between the brothers over opposing strategies of building and selling.

Far from following similar approaches, the siblings played in quite different ways: Nick buying anything he landed on, from railway stations to Mayfair, while Christian focused his spending on a narrow group of prime properties.

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