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Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit--on leading and managing as a perpetual entrepreneur

In honor of Entrepreneur Month, I’ve been writing here and at Harvard Business Review with my paired leadership partner Mary Michelle Scott, Fishbowl president, about launching and scaling a company in a high growth phase. We’ve been hitting some hot buttons, particularly in our Forbes article “The Case for Hiring ‘Under Qualified’ Employees,”  June 14. The responses have been phenomenal. (216 comments and some 141,500 views. Keep them coming, folks—I’m loving the dialogue.)

In that same vein, I’d like to continue discussing the entrepreneurial skills required to run a great company. We’re talking today with Brad Smith, president and CEO of Intuit, one of the world’s largest and most successful financial software companies. Intuit, of course, is maker of the QuickBooks accounting software we have fully-integrated with our Fishbowl Inventory software, that we offer to midsize companies as a complete business management solution through Fishbowl Enterprise (FBE) software, and that we

To read the full, original article click on this link: Brad Smith, Intuit CEO: "How to Be a Great Leader: Get Out of the Way" - Forbes