Performance Gaps Between Cousins
The greatest jealousies can arise among cousins who grew up together; a path that began on equal terms produces different performances in business life. A measurable and visible development process can turn this tension into respect.
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The differences in the career journeys of individuals who grew up together and share similar social and economic conditions can sometimes lead to unexpected tensions even among those closest to them.
In a race that begins on equal terms, what changes when performance gaps come into play?
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During work with a family, one of the young people once said to me: "Orhan, you know what, it turns out the greatest jealousies occur among cousins who grow up together." Until that moment I had never thought about it that way, but the theory has a true side to it like this. Actually, because cousins who grow up together are raised within the same order of wealth and reach many of the things they want, one assumes that both of them develop under equal conditions and that the same environment produces the same kind of profiles. But once they enter business life, different levels of performance can emerge. In that case, situations can arise where the less successful one envies the more successful one.
This means: just as we try to do within the academy as well, when you establish a process in which peers can observe one another and results are made measurable and visible, we also reach an indirect benefit here, where the profiles whose outputs are better and who show their own development process more clearly come to command respect and gain acceptance in the eyes of the cousins, the siblings, that is, the other members of the family.
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