The Founder's Survival Guide: Lead your business from start-up to scale-up to grown-up

by Rachel E Turner Narrated by Rachel E Turner

Overview

Start-up leadership will only get you so far. The founder path is isolating, stressful and overwhelming, and few founders survive the scale-up journey unscathed. If you don't scale your leadership as you scale your company, you're unlikely to survive. Rachel Turner has spent over twenty years helping founders of growing businesses to survive and thrive, so they can lead successful and healthy businesses.*The Founder's Survival Guide*shows you how to do the same. It shows you how to adapt your leadership style and shift from brave warrior, to considered architect, to wise monarch as your business grows. It addresses some of the most common challenges scale-up founders face, and provides an extensive toolbox to help you manage your team, your energy and your mind. Listen to this audiobook to: * - Understand what your business, people and stakeholders require of you at different stages of growth, and adapt your leadership style accordingly - Master the skills of communicating to influence and communicating to manage, and know when to use which - Stay energetically fit for the marathon, not the sprint - Avoid the self-sabotaging ego defences that can hold back even the most inspiring founder - Scale your leadership as you scale your business - from start-up to scale-up to grown-up

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

‘At last, a book that will be genuinely helpful to founders! Rachel’s been a founder, then coached founders for over two decades, and her understanding of the challenges we face is second to none. Leading a fast-growing start-up is an exhilarating and bumpy ride and The Founder’s Survival Guide makes it just a little smoother. Buy it and keep it by your desk!’ — Melanie Travis, founder, Andie Swim

‘Required reading for any founder looking to successfully traverse the challenges of start-up and scale-up. Rachel understands founders and what makes them tick, and her book is packed full of insights, tips and tactics that will enable them to not just survive but to thrive.’ — Rob Kaplan, founder, Circulate Capital

‘This is an essential resource for any founder, a handbook to turn to when things get tough. All founders make mistakes. This book tells you how to dig yourself out of every hole you will fall into on your business journey. Heed Rachel’s advice and you might even avoid falling into so many.’ — Polly MacKenzie, former CEO, Demos

‘Rachel shares her wisdom generously, expecting nothing back but the joy she gets from helping others be successful. I am privileged to have her as my coach and was one of the first to read this book. When I started to suffer from being a Brave Warrior while scaling my company, her wisdom helped me to see my strengths and weaknesses and manage them. My killer shots were my greatest assets but they started to become my greatest liabilities and I didn’t know how to use them. The Founder’s Survival Guide will help you survive and thrive! You’re lucky to have this book by your side.’ — Dilek Dayinlarli, founder, ScaleX Ventures

‘This book is actually more like a user manual... to myself. Rachel is truly a master when it comes to making big concepts easy to grasp. This book hands you both a framework and a Toolbox to unlock the best leader you can be for every situation. If you’re exiting the messy, beginning stage as a company and you’re ready to grow up as a CEO, please make this book your business bible.’ — Rachael King, founder, Pod People

‘The ideas in this book have been central to my success as the founder of a scaling business. Buy it. Keep it by your bed. Turn to it whenever things get hairy.’ — Petronella West, founder, Investment Quorum

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159662323
Publisher:	Rethink Press
Publication date:	02/01/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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