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: Can you envision what your life would be like if you didn’t have the organization or team to run? Is it part of who you are? Are you afraid that if you leave, the organization will change into something that is no longer what you want it to be? *********************************
From one founder to another
For me, this issue is personal. Let me write this as someone who has learned the hard way. Think first about the community, which is why you created the organization in the first place. Have you prepared the organization to survive (and dare I say thrive) without your presence? Can you think of leaving? Would the organization survive without you? If your answer is “no,” then you have somehow made the organization about yourself, rather than about the mission.