Title: Founder’s Syndrome? Who Me?
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Content: Ok - that’s the other metaphor. We have         created this amazing gift for our community. Now that it is used and depended         upon by others - now that we have given this gift to the community, it is no         longer ours. It belongs to the community. That’s the definition of a         gift. From these two facts - that the organization is a being         in its own right, and that that being belongs to the community, not us - come a         number of other facts many founders don’t want to face. 1) Along with the         decision to bring a child into the world comes the responsibility to raise it         to live independently. We all know the old adage - that the only         certainties in life are death and taxes. Well the part we don’t like to         admit to ourselves is that there is another certainty associated with the         “death” part - and that is that none of us knows exactly when our         days will be done. Because we know we are not going to live forever, and we         cannot know if our last day will be tomorrow or 50 years from now, it is         irresponsible to run our organizations as if we will, in fact, be around         forever.