You Can Never Truly Be a Business Owner as an Employee
And it’s one of the biggest causes of toxic workplaces.
Executives all over the world are being lied to and it’s creating two hidden problems. The problem wasn’t obvious until I saw a pattern.
At a certain point in your career, there is this feeling where you think to yourself “I want to be a business owner.”
In 2015 a study conducted by OECD titled “Entrepreneurship at a Glance” found that well over 50% of the people surveyed wanted to be their own boss and the number continues to rise.
There are two paths that stem from this feeling and one is problematic: running a business unit in a company you don’t own. I’ve seen time and time again, people with good intentions taking leadership roles and running areas of a business to try and feel like a business owner. They’re chasing that feeling and unknowingly not getting it. They can’t understand why.
If their goal is to be a business owner, it always ends in tears when working in somebody else’s company.
“Run it like it’s your own business”
This phrase is a lie. You are either the owner of a business, or you’re not. When you own a business, you can make the decisions and if it fails, the…
