As businesses grow, many entrepreneurs worry about losing touch with their company’s original purpose — its soul, if you will. Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati wanted to understand the problem better, so he interviewed 65 CEOs of fast-growth ventures.
“I came to realize very quickly that there’s a tension between wanting to be grown up and big, but not losing that entrepreneurial spirit,” he said. “I found many of them lamenting ‘the good old days.'”