Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Many startup managers find themselves in leadership roles because of their technical skills or entrepreneurial drive, not necessarily because they’ve been formally trained in the art of management.

It’s generally agreed upon that skilled jobs require some amount of formal training—you probably wouldn’t hire an electrician with no training or a doctor who hadn’t been to medical school. But for ...