Leading at the Speed of Growth : Journey from Entrepreneur to CEO

Customer Reviews

Many people would say that entrepreneurs are great at starting companies but there is a time when they have to step aside and let people who know how to run companies take over. Yet some of the greatest companies of our time have had their founders as leaders well past the start up phase. Wal-Mart, Fedex, Microsoft, HP, Siebel, Dell, Disney, Starbucks, Motorola, Sony - just some of the companies where the founders were able to transition from Entrepreneur to CEO. Leading at the Speed of Growth may help you create the next great company. It will certainly help you understand the transitions that a company and its leader goes through as it grows.

Leaders looking to build a company to last, and plan on being around to see it, will want to buy this book to help in their own understanding of the stages of company growth that are clearly profiled from the insights and quotes of real life entrepreneurs. More than just understanding stages that a high growth company goes through, it is the recognition of where one's own state of leadership maturity is that may make the difference between your personal growth or being forced to pass the mantle of your company's leadership to a "professional manager."

I found the stages for both company and leadership growth to be dead on in recounting what has been a ten year journey for me - as well as consistent with what I see in the high growth venture backed companies that comprise my customer base.

Even with several aspects of those stages behind me, I find the book to present a useful framework that helped prompt healthy discussion within our management team to stimulate further change.

Martin Babinec CEO, TriNet Group, Inc.

This Book is good for every CEO and entrepeneur reengineering !

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