Chapter 17. cake eating
Some pull it off. Equilibrium, when found, comes in many shapes and forms. The quest for balance leads gen e in a variety of directions. Not all rush out and start their own business while busily cutting the corporate umbilical cord. Dual careering — an ugly phrase, we know — is increasingly common as people try to crowd entrepreneurial activities into already busy executive lives.
Untrained in business theory, old style entrepreneurs busked it. They were outsiders. Uncomfortable with the existing rules, they invented their own. To them, the very notion of a professionally trained manager was anathema. To them, the suits of the business establishment were the enemy. "Few entrepreneurs have business school qualifications ...
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