How India's Next Generation Is Redefining Family Business

Today's inheriting generation brings with it a very different exposure. Many have studied abroad, worked in professional settings, invested in startups, or experimented with entrepreneurship long before returning to the family fold.

- BY RAJMOHAN KRISHNAN

FOR DECADES, LEADERSHIP PATHS WERE LARGELY RESERVED FOR SONS, TODAY, DAUGHTERS ARE INCREASINGLY TAKING THE HELM TOO, WITH THE RISE OF DAUGHTERS' DESKS.

Their worldview is shaped by global comparisons and an appetite for innovation. For them, succession is not merely continuation, it is reinvention. They are more likely to question legacy models, reevaluate traditional sectors, bring technology into processes, and rethink scale in terms of long-term resilience rather than lineage alone. For decades, leadership paths were largely reserved for sons, today, daughters are increasingly taking the helm too, with the rise of daughters' desks. This shift is not symbolic, it reflects a wider openness to capability-driven succession.

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