All businesses face risk — family businesses are no exception. Generally thought to adopt a more conservative approach toward managing their business operations, family businesses are often considered more risk averse than their nonfamily counterparts. According to the Harvard Business Review's article "What You Can Learn from Family Business" they "forgo the excess returns available during good times in order to increase their odds of survival during bad times." When it comes to managing risk, it is important to ask: How does your family dimension impact your appetite for risk? How do you manage risk tolerance differences among family members? What process do you have in place to communicate decisions that may involve greater risk in order to build alignment and understanding within key stakeholders?
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机译：所有企业都面临风险-家族企业也不例外。通常认为家族企业采用更保守的方法来管理其业务运营，通常认为家族企业比非家族企业更能规避风险。根据《哈佛商业评论》（Harvard Business Review）的文章“您可以从家族企业中学到什么”，他们“放弃了在繁荣时期可获得的超额收益，以增加在艰难时期生存的机会。”关于风险管理，重要的是要问：您的家庭规模如何影响您的风险偏好？您如何处理家庭成员之间的风险承受能力差异？您采用什么流程来传达可能涉及更大风险的决策，以便在关键利益相关者内部建立一致和理解？
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