By Elizabeth Stief, Post-Exit Strategist, Zug, Switzerland
Prevailing accounts classify the post-exit experience as psychological: loss, identity disruption, emotional adjustment. That classification is wrong at the structural level. What exit removes is infrastructure. Five distinct provisioning systems, embedded in what the founder built, are removed simultaneously at exit.
Read ArticleIn 1933, Marie Jahoda moved into a village where the sole factory had closed and documented what employment provides beyond income. The research tradition that followed ran for nine decades across unemployment, retirement, and underemployment. The founder population remained outside its frame throughout.
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