Title: Founder’s Syndrome: How Organizations Suffer…and Can Recover (Part I) – How Matters
Headings: Founder’s Syndrome: How Organizations Suffer…and Can Recover (Part I)
Founder’s Syndrome: How Organizations Suffer…and Can Recover (Part I)
Author: Jennifer Lentfer

Content: This may be difficult to hear—but it’s not about you, nor was it about me. It is hard to acknowledge that no matter how much you put into nurturing the organization you founded, none of that really matters in the long run. The sad truth is that nobody owes us anything for our sacrifices. It cannot be about our emotional needs or the recognition or gratitude we think we should get. The world doesn’t owe us anything for having founded our organizations. Once you have “birthed” an organization, it is no longer your baby. Just as it is with your own children, they are their own persons. We can guide our children, teach them, nurture them. But our son or daughter is not ours, as it is with our own organizations. So it is irresponsible to run our organizations as if we will be around forever.