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: Founders Syndrome is no one’s fault—no founder sets out to damage his or her organization. Staff and board members or leadership who avoid responsibility mare often also part of the problem. There are actions that founders, board members, and staff can take to avoid the problems of founder’s syndrome. Read on…
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What are the symptoms of founder’s syndrome? The founder is at the center of all decision-making. Decisions are made quickly, with little input from others. No one really seems to know what’s going on. In other words, everyone who is NOT the founder is only a support to the founder. Planning is not done collectively and any ideas that do not come from the founder usually don’t go very far. People can even become afraid of the founder.