The Entrepreneurial Experience: Confronting Career Dilemmas of the Start-Up Executive

by W. Gibb Dyer Jr.

Draws on in-depth interviews and case studies to examine the emotional side of business, offering strategies entrepreneurs use to cope with the loneliness, stress, and isolation they often feel. Uncovers the dilemmas that entrepreneurs confront at each stage of their careers--from start-up through retirement--including organizational systems that midcareer entrepreneurs use to maintain control of their growing businesses and how entrepreneurs overcome resistance to retirement and plan for this transition.

268 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1992

About the author

William Gibb Dyer Jr.