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Entrepreneurial people are change agents. They like making things happen.
As an organization gets larger, creating productive change gets more difficult. Due to sheer size, big organizations have a lot of inertia and are hard to budge. Additionally, as they take on more and more people, the likelihood of taking on mediocre people gets higher. This requires more structure, more procedures, more bureaucracy.
Consequently, “entrepreneurial-ness” begins to diffuse away from the organization, change agents begin to go seek more fertile ground where they can have a greater impact.
And you’re left with a big, immobile tank that can’t change directions. As the world changes, big organizations don’t. The result is a lot of stupid actions and decisions.
-Kevin
7.23.2010
