Your sibling has no title. No agreement. No authority over anything. But they're approving hires, committing to clients, and redirecting spending — and everyone in the business is going along with it like someone officially put them in charge. Nobody did.

You hired a non-family executive to run your family business. Your kids treat them like a suggestion. The problem isn't your family — it's that you never finished the handoff.

When a family business skips a generation, the adult grandchild ends up holding a business that was never built for them to run. The title transfers. The authority doesn't. Here's what that costs and how to fix it.