My parents were always self-employed, so I grew up in an entrepreneurial environment. To me, working for a corporation meant one thing—conformity. So when I took a job in corporate communications for a large association, I tacked two things to my cubicle wall as a reminder to stay true to myself: One was a photograph of 1950s film star James Dean, the iconic embodiment of the nonconformist. The other was the true story of Larry Walters from Robert Fulghum’s book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.