Barack and Michelle Obama-A Family Business

August 25, 8:05 PMRelationship ExaminerKristen Houghton

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Do you have a working relationship run like a solid family business? The Obamas have one.

Michelle Obama makes speeches, (good ones), extolling the virtues of her presidential hopeful husband and tonight she will take the stage as the headline speaker at the DNC kick-off in Denver. The woman Barack Obama calls “my rock” will open the first night of the Democratic Convention with a call for unity among both the delegates and the American people and urge all to cast their vote for her husband. In dong so she helps promote the family business.

It is a brilliant corporate move.

We’ve seen them together; they genuinely seem to love and care for each other, but there is more to their marriage than what we see. They have a working relationship. Their goals as a couple are set and, like any other CEO and CFO of a successful private company they work together to built it.

The marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama is the same as any other successful business partnership; they work well together and support each other.

They are not alone

Couples like Steve Wynn of Las Vegas fame and his wife Elaine Paschals, have worked together for over thirty years to create their dream enterprise.

Bill and Melinda Gates, maried fourteen years, are a dream team as philanthropists. 

Author Dan Brown and his wife, Blythe make a great corporate couple. He, of course, is a best-selling author, and she is his intellectual critic, editor, art expert, and unofficial publicist. She has been her husband's artistic muse ever since they formed a relationship in Los Angeles 16 years ago.

If marriage is a partnership in the truest sense then perhaps running it like a business may be the best thing for it’s success. It seems to work well for Michelle and Barack Obama, so well in fact that their next home may very well be the White House. 

See what a good working relationship can accomplish?

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