When the founder’s self-inflicted intensity becomes everyone’s unspoken minimum, something has been transferred that was never agreed.
By
Michael Anthony Macharia
Founder
Seven Seas Technologies
This week, stories from inside our workplaces moved through the headlines. I do not know which details are true or noise, and this column will not judge a case it cannot verify. But they circle a question every founder eventually meets in the mirror: can the same drive that builds a company also burn the people inside it?
Scarcity as survival is understandable, but it cannot compound, because it is not built on generosity, and nothing built against…
he founder who survives learns to think more like a statesman and less like a service provider, without losing the integrity that…
The paradox does not resolve. Leave too early and the enterprise can lose its fire before the creed has set. Leave too late and…
An article by Shahnaz Hamade, Founder and CEO of Harmonie Consulting There is a particular kind of exhaustion that many…
Founders hold lived intelligence. The question is whether they are willing to bring that intelligence into public life…
A startup cofounder says his unique connection with his summer interns pulled him out of burnout, boosted productivity, and made…
