It’s pretty well accepted that the skills and personality
required to be effective in leading a start-up operation are unlikely to be the
right tools the take the same company to maturity and/or eventual sale. In the PR industry the failure of individuals
to realise this maxim is inextricably linked to cases of Proprietorial Vanity Valuation
Syndrome (PVVS)
It’s an industry where...
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