The start-up syndrome

The agility and the nimbleness that a growth business needs to succeed is killed in this painfully slow corporate bureaucracy

Lots of people I know who’ve spent their entire career working for large, established companies are keen to either launch entrepreneurial ventures or join existing start-ups. The sense of independence, the desire to create something big from scratch, and earn big bucks in doing so, is no doubt alluring. And that’s prompting thousands of people to chuck relatively stable corporate jobs and take the plunge into entrepreneurship. The truth is that making the transition is anything but easy. Most people I’ve known struggle to adapt to the new environment, primarily because they find it hard to shed the baggage of