Successful business partnerships require same elements as winning marriages do.

When approached by Business First to write an advice column on how to successfully balance running a business along with playing a meaningful role in a family, I figured I would need at least enough space for a novel as opposed to the 400 to 700 words allocated to explain the 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week and 365-days-a-year juggling act involved to explain what my wife, Sharon, and I experience running multiple media companies.

I came to the conclusion that not everybody potentially reading this article would have the exact same experiences that I have running a business day to day that not only involves my wife but several other members of our family on both …