In my experience, this barren inner reality quickly becomes desperate, wild, and collapsing in on itself. You see nothing around you, but then begin to imagine all kinds of things. Sometimes this leads to mild paranoia, fears of being undermined, wonderings about whether or not you can do this. Often, entrepreneurs in such situations try to “get back to basics” in trusting their gut, but they fail to realize that the gut in this isolated situation is as likely to betray as it is to help. The entrepreneur does not really have access to the gut because of the isolation, and instead is making what Kevin Clancy refers to as testosterone driven decisions. Such decisions rarely turn out to be good for the organization.

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