Organizations and Markets

Entrepreneurship and Dyslexia

10 December 2007 at 12:52 pm stevphel 1 comment

| Steve Phelan | 

Strange story in the NY Times on Dec 6 (HT: Freakanomics).

Some of the highlights:

The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic.

And…

“Entrepreneurs are hands-on people who push a minimum of paper, do lots of stuff orally instead of reading and writing, and delegate authority, all of which suggests a high verbal facility,” Mr. Dennis said. “Compare that with corporate managers who read, read, read.”

Indeed, according to Professor Logan, only 1 percent of corporate managers in the United States have dyslexia.

I guess we can call this a compensatory theory of entrepreneurship. Professors are doomed as readers, too, I guess.

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