Assignment:
Worried about Junior misbehaving? Here's an answer:
Call a board meeting. As crazy as it sounds, some Americans are trying to keep tabs on the kids by bringing business strategies into the traditional family meeting. They're hashing out everything from vacations to disputes over toys with techniques that seem right out of a management textbook: mission statements, rotating chairmanships, motivational seminars, even suggestion boxes. The most corporate of clans hire professional meeting facilitators, just to smooth over family squabbles.
a. List some of the strengths and weaknesses of the business approach to raising children.
b. Do you regard the business approach in the home as a promising development or another encroachment of business values into life outside of work? Explain.