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    From Corporate To Entrepreneurship: How I Dumped The Pedigree

    "Ten years of corporate life were enough for me, and I knew it the day my employer finally replaced a schmoozing but ineffective project manager. The new leader was not focused on popularity, stoking his career, or apple polishing. Instead, he held everyone, even high level stakeholders, accountable for progress. He accomplished in months what more than a year of people pleasing couldn’t do. That made him an outlier..."