Why Startup Success Can Become Employee Stress
Growth can bring unwanted side effects: leadership overload, employee burnout, more complicated systems and processes, and a change to the startup's culture.
Growth can bring unwanted side effects: leadership overload, employee burnout, more complicated systems and processes, and a change to the startup's culture.
Successful entrepreneurs solve the right customer problems, but some of them are not worth solving or building a business around. Here's how to analyze the possibilities.
Growing up privileged does make things easier, but entrepreneurs from less privileged backgrounds develop strengths that serve them well as business owners.
What sounds delusional from one company might sound visionary from another. A study of AI startups showed that context is everything.
The Harvard Case Methodology, which emphasizes vigorous debate guided by teachers, can help students gain the thinking skills they need to succeed as business owners.
Blurring work and personal lives can lead to stress and exhaustion. Family businesses do these four things to create healthier boundaries.
AI is being used to inform critical decisions, but its bias, based on outmoded historical data, puts companies in real danger.
Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Like military strategists, business owners face decisions that must balance vision and resources, courage and caution, innovation and discipline.
Resilience-seeking is not primarily about outperforming rivals but about adapting to a broad range of unexpected challenges that fall outside market competition.
These innovators, who started businesses and introduced new products after passing 50, are evidence that there’s no age limit on good ideas.
Supported by the Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
