Carl Schramm, chief executive of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, says an emerging body of evidence indicates that entrepreneurs’ almost neurotic need to take charge is in some cases biologically determined. Dyslexics, for example, “who can’t master huge amounts of recorded wisdom, who can’t play by other people’s rules,” have to create environments where they operate on their own, Schramm says.
“Something like 4 percent of the British population is dyslexic,” he says.
“Something like 8 percent of the CEOs of big corporations are dyslexic. And 28 percent of founders of start-ups are dyslexic. And this is really just a subset of a much broader phenomenon of people who are temperamentally unable to fit into somebody else’s system.”
From The 8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs by Brent Bowers, 2006, p. 46
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