Mark Osborne argues that first-time founders and CEOs get no formal training for the job, even from Harvard or Wharton. They learn by doing, and their mistakes ripple through the whole company because they're at the top.
When you're a first-time founder and CEO, you have no idea what you're doing. I think we're all in the same seat. We have no clue. And because there's no training for that, there's no school to lead a company. Funny enough, go to Harvard or Wharton, you're not going to learn how to run a company. You're going to learn plenty of stuff, but not how to run a company. So, this is something we have to learn through experience. There's no other way to do that. And when you start doing this, you are making a lot of mistakes, and those mistakes are very, very expensive emotionally and financially because you're You're at the top of the company, meaning that your mistakes go all the way down and impact everything.
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