Book Excerpt
When you’re in corporate America, you’re sustaining someone else’s vision. That’s why your role is typically one of support and somewhat 
limited in scope. On the other hand, when you create a vision, you are responsible for pressing that vision into reality and you too will need others to champion your cause. So when you leave the corporate body to lead your own venture, you should also leave behind the subordinate mind set of support which probably helped make you successful in the corporate realm. You cannot be a leader using a follower mind set. That’s why I stated earlier that it’s imperative for you to leave this mind set behind. You are required in your new venture to be a leader and a visionary. You will never lead if you act like a follower and a vision with no leader or purpose is destined to fail.
It’s important to note here that when David killed the giant Goliath, he was not an official soldier. He later became a soldier and was then subject to the rules of the army, as he was a commanding officer. So although initially you must leave the “in the box” thinking behind, at some point, as your own organization begins to gain more momentum and success, it will be important to re-engage the systematic processes for the overall health and efficiency of the company.
In short, you must leave the “in the box” thinking in corporate America. It will not serve you well in the beginning stages of entrepreneurship. You must learn to solve all the problems, even when solving those problems means bringing on other people. That means you get to decide not only IF you should hire help, but WHEN to hire help. You then get to decide how much you’re going to pay for the help you think you need, and the decisions will go on and on. This is nothing like what you did in the corporate world where more than likely you were only responsible for just a small segment of the company’s problem. In entrepreneurship, ultimately, you’re the IT- guy/gal for solving all the problems.