What I disagree with is the notion that anyone should start or operate a business in the explicit mold of someone else’s experience, as reduced to a couple hundred pages padded with illustrations and diagrams. It’s a bit like starting a fad diet without considering the particulars of your health and lifestyle. It may be hard to subsist on kumquat juice when your neighborhood grocer doesn’t sell kumquats.
via Alex Payne — On Business Madness.
I am sometimes a victim to this sort of thinking. I work inside a large bio-pharma that is in the throes of change.