There’s One Attribute That Makes an Entrepreneur a Great Long-Term Leader

There’s One Attribute That Makes an Entrepreneur a Great Long-Term Leader
From Jeff Bezos to Bill Gates to Elon Musk, we are in the age of founders as long-term leaders. Why?
Joel Shulman
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Oct 28, 2019
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Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/GettyIt is conventional wisdom that what it takes to get a business off the ground is very different than the skills necessary to manage a company as it matures. In the natural…
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Written by Joel Shulman
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Founder/CIO at EntrepreneurShares and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He has an MPA from Harvard as well as Ph.D., CFA credentials.
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