Sparrow: Transitioning from corporate to startup leadership requires accepting you are usually wrong
Kerry Sparrow · He Runs the World's Largest Labor Data Firm and Truth Terrifies Him · Aug 29, 2023 · at 2:04
Kerry Sparrow, founder and CEO of WageScape, discusses the psychological shift required when moving from structured corporate leadership to founding a startup.
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“Without a doubt, at the beginning, it was an entire shift in, in my mental framework. You know, I came from a career that I was in the military, then I was in, you know, I was in consulting, I was a consulting leader, and then I was a corporate leader. And in those roles, you get paid to be right. You get paid to, you know find risk and manage it out of whatever system you're you know, you're working with. And as a small business founder I wake up every morning knowing that almost everything that I do and almost everything I know about the business is wrong in some way.”
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