What Must Aron Do to Gain the Trust of the Family and to Lead the Family into the 4th Generation?
What must Aron do to gain the trust of the family and to lead the family into the 4th generation?
To start with I would like to emphasise that Aron seems to be in the good position with gaining the trust of the family. However, he understands well that nowadays the business structure and way of doing business are changing very fast and dramatically. As a result, Harilela family have to correspond to this trends to continue its success in the modern world. Personally I would not say that I agree with all the changes Aron would like to implement, but it seems that he is on the right track of it in general.
As far as I am concerned, the main problem appear when relatively young person, like Aron, comes to the board in a role of a chairman and starts performing “reforms” which are not in the parallel with others- more older and mature members. This could ruin Harilela family harmony, which was created and well treated during a number of years. From the other hand, in case Aron just join a board as a chairman and starts follow its old way of doing business, it could have a negative affect on the last one as will not be efficient in the nowadays environment. Obviously there is not sense to follow that path as it does not bring a success to anybody.
The challenge is to become a leader for the old Harilela generation and create a synergy by proving that Aron can bring success to the entire family and the business. In my view, he already proved that he can add value to the group by successful accusation of some real estate in the past. This was done with no control from Hari and proves Arons capabilities for defining a global strategy of the group. This also could be used as a good reference when appointing Aron to the chairman role.
Second essential thing is to ensure support of his mother Padma. According to informal rules of Harilela family, womens opinion is seriously considered