NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE:
Did you know that 70% of successful entrepreneurs were employed by someone else before they started their own businesses, and one of the main reasons they became entrepreneurs was to stop working for other people? As Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains in The Harvard Business Review, polls show that most employees are unhappy at work and most bosses are intolerable.
As Tomas reports, we can thank those bad bosses and their poor leadership skills for many of the best startups in history that have successfully created new jobs and attracted the best talent year after year.
Furthermore, entrepreneurship opens the door to women. Tomas writes:
“Unlike in corporate management, there is no glass ceiling in a company you start yourself, which is why female entrepreneurs are flourishing. In the U.S, their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that’s 40% of China’s entire GDP). Many of these businesses are led by women who would probably not have been considered for the top leadership position by their previous employers.”
Get the Details: How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship via blogs.hbr.org
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Susan Gunelius
Susan Gunelius is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Women on Business. She is a 30-year veteran of the marketing field and has authored a dozen books about marketing, branding, and social media, including the highly popular Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, 30-Minute Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing for Dummies, Blogging All-in-One for Dummies and Kick-ass Copywriting in 10 Easy Steps. Susan’s marketing-related content can be found on Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, MSNBC.com, BusinessWeek.com, and more. Susan is President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a marketing communications company. She has worked in corporate marketing roles and through client relationships with AT&T, HSBC, Citibank, Intuit, The New York Times, Cox Communications, and many more large and small companies around the world. Susan also speaks about marketing, branding and social media at events around the world and is frequently interviewed by television, online, radio, and print media organizations about these topics. She holds an MBA in Management and Strategy and a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and is a Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC).
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I’m not surprised! This is my story exactly. Had an OK job, but the company I was working for had in my humble opinion a mediocre management. So, I spent countless late nights and weekends building up my own company. Here I am a couple of year later, freer, happier and much more in control. Just do it!