The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BO6QMC8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 341 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Companies that build and maintain healthy cultures scale with speed and sidestep avoidable stall-out. Allen and Mr. These books help do that.” Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher on the 800-CEO-READ 2016 Business Book of the Year Longlist, which includes THE FOUNDER’S MENTALITYAs a founder myself, I get it. Change is in the air and technology is on the rise, but business is still a human pursuit, and should be humane. ForbesExcellent Zook and Allen’s book focuses on how to manage the following dilemma: How can we manage growth without destroying what made us great? The Founder’s Mentality causes us to appreciate the brilliance of an IKEA and to take practical steps to keep the Founder’s Mentality at the forefront of the way we define strategy, the way we hire front line people, and the way we design compensation systems.&rd
What's more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment--find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader--not only a founder--can instill and leverage a founder's mentality throughout their organization, and find lasting, profitable growth.. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further--and can actively lead to decline.The key insight from Zook and Allen's research is that managing these choke points requires a "founder's mentality"-- behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder--to restore the speed, focus, and connection to customers, all of which are lost as companies
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