Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1633692760 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Erin Byrne said A book for the non-Drivers of the world. Building your own business is daunting and ambiguous. It's even more ambiguous when you don't fit the mold of the prototypical entrepreneur -- what this book calls the Driver: relentless, commercially focused, highly confident. A dollar-sign for a brain. Steve Jobs.And not me.I'm a Crusader, it seems: audacious, mission-inspired, and compassionate, with a desire to solve problems that matter to people, markets, and society. Ben & Jerry. The "we" before the "me," possibly to a fault. It fits.There are a lot . "academic information and real-world interactions to great effect to present their views" according to DarrenIngram_dot_com. Personality matters and how you (and your colleagues) present and portray themselves can have a marked impact on your success. This is the key message of this book, which suggests that a founder or key leader’s personality and outward presentation can make a significant contribution to a project’s or company’s success, working in conjunction with other well-known factors.It can be one of the few factors you can directly and specifically influence with a degree of certainty, yet it seems to. Kuenne and Danner have written a great book that helps us understand how to be better Derek Lidow Kuenne and Danner have written a great book that helps us understand how to be better entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Their book makes it beautifully clear about how we all think differently and how we all go about capturing the opportunities around us differently--which in turns allows us to start new and valuable companies. This book is helpful for anyone in business, not just entrepreneurs, because we all want to understand how best to unleash our creative inner selves while working more effectively wit
A Wall Street Journal BestsellerAre You a Driver, an Explorer, a Crusader, or a Captain?Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it’s a stand-alone startup or a venture inside a larger corporation. Using a patented analytic methodology, authors Chris Kuenne and John Danner discovered four distinct types of highly successful entrepreneurial personalitiesthe Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneurthe particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. Each is motivated, makes decisions, manages, and leads their businesses differently.Kuenne and Danner blend pioneering research and exclusive personal interviews to illustrate how each type handles the five dynamic challenges in building a business of lasting value: converting ideas into products, galvanizing individual talent for collaborative impact, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business.With assessments and tools, including a brief Builder Per
An experienced entrepreneur and business adviser, he anchors executive leadership courses globally. He is the founder of Rosetta, a digital marketing firm sold in 2011 to Publicis Groupe, and the private equity firm Rosemark Capital. He is the coauthor of The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work.. Chris Kuenne is a successful business builder, growth
In this essential book, Kuenne and Danner focus on the fit between the founder’s personality and the teams, customers, and investors needed to build for growth. Built for Growth is a must-read for any entrepreneur, startup team member, investor, or executive committed to growing a successful large-scale business that lasts.”. A must-read!”Alan Blinder, former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve; former member, Council of Economic Advisers“The ancient Greek philosophers advised us to ‘know thyself.’ Kuenne and Danner agree, and they argue that the personality of the founder is one of the key elements in the growth of a new