Successful Entrepreneurs and Successful Criminals Have Something in Common

Date:  03-01-2016 Entrepreneurs, small business owners and others can find themselves steps away from a prison cell

Via INC What Successful Entrepreneurs and Successful Criminals Have in Common The distance between the criminal and the successful entrepreneur is not so very far By Tim Askew, Corporate CEO of Rain International I found this line in a recent John Grisham bestseller. "Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types." The distance between the criminal and the successful entrepreneur is not so very far. We both intuitively operate out-of-the-box with an instinct for not accepting the status quo. We both are not inclined to accept the tyranny of the given. We both intuitively color outside the lines. Note the work of Bill McCarthy (UC Davis) and John Hagan (Northwestern) who report that people who are the most successful at crime have a strong desire to succeed, to take risk and to live by their own rules. Hmm. Sounds very much like most driven entrepreneurs. I recently met a wonderful man named Jeff Grant who heads up an organization in Connecticut called the Progressive Prison Project, a non-profit dedicated to guiding and supporting business owners and white-collar executives. who have been accused of, convicted of, or been incarcerated for crimes ranging from DUI to financially motivated felonies. Jeff Grant feels entrepreneurs, single-practitioners, DBAs, and small businessmen increasingly face exceptional dangers of drifting into damaging legal problems and even incarceration for a variety of reasons. Read more.