I wonder if one if the prime drivers for entrepreneurship is bad management. I have to think that bad management pushes a lot of capable people out of their day jobs, and those people go on to become entrepreneurs. […]

Sorry, Scott. I’m an employee-turned-entrepreneur myself, and bad management had very little to do with the change. You come to expect stupid management decisions; it’s part of the background, you don’t even notice it after a few weeks on the job.

It’s not until you leave to run your own business that you start to see just how stupid some of those decisions were… and how unexpectedly intelligent some others (that seemed equally stupid from a worker’s perspective) were. You really do have to walk in a business owner’s shoes for a while to really understand the things driving him to make those decisions.

On the other hand, bad management (elsewhere) is definitely part of the reason I stay an entrepreneur. 🙂