Founder's Syndrome: A Learned Learning Disability

This book is aimed at exposing the implications of founder’s syndrome (or founderitis) on the organizational development revealing how it can become more than a simple hindrance and threaten its very existence. Through qualitative research the issue of founderitis has been explored in depth going beyond merely highlighting the symptoms and rather emphasizing the underlying cause of the dysfunctional behavioral patterns and mechanisms. Recognized as nothing more than an entanglement of organizational learning disabilities founder’s syndrome exceeds an exclusive responsibility. Concurrently its preservation and reinforcement becomes a collective responsibility and not the founder’s individual problem to solve.