Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Cliches That Inhibit Growth
In Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Clichés That Inhibit Growth, author and six-time second CEO Les Trachtman offers his expertise on the most effective ways to successfully hand off your company to a worthy successor. He also has advice for those who are inheriting a business and want to take it to the next level, as well as for boards who are dealing with these leadership transitions. In his direct, no-nonsense approach, Les shows readers how seemingly harmless business clichés such as "get it right" and "be careful" can have a detrimental effect on a company's future by conveying that such imperative ingredients such as risk and innovation are things to now be avoided. 

Readers will learn how to:
• Understand the metamorphosis required to transition from great founder to great CEO
• Know when, and if, it's time to replace yourself
• Pick the right successor
• Prepare yourself and your company for the fragile transition
• Create a successful CEO transition
• Separate yourself from the company

There is likely no one more experienced in founder transitions than Les Trachtman. He has been an innovative and respected successor at six different companies; let his hard-won advice guide you through your transition and toward success.
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Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Cliches That Inhibit Growth
In Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Clichés That Inhibit Growth, author and six-time second CEO Les Trachtman offers his expertise on the most effective ways to successfully hand off your company to a worthy successor. He also has advice for those who are inheriting a business and want to take it to the next level, as well as for boards who are dealing with these leadership transitions. In his direct, no-nonsense approach, Les shows readers how seemingly harmless business clichés such as "get it right" and "be careful" can have a detrimental effect on a company's future by conveying that such imperative ingredients such as risk and innovation are things to now be avoided. 

Readers will learn how to:
• Understand the metamorphosis required to transition from great founder to great CEO
• Know when, and if, it's time to replace yourself
• Pick the right successor
• Prepare yourself and your company for the fragile transition
• Create a successful CEO transition
• Separate yourself from the company

There is likely no one more experienced in founder transitions than Les Trachtman. He has been an innovative and respected successor at six different companies; let his hard-won advice guide you through your transition and toward success.
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Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Cliches That Inhibit Growth

Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Cliches That Inhibit Growth

by Nick Nova
Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Cliches That Inhibit Growth

Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Cliches That Inhibit Growth

by Nick Nova

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In Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Clichés That Inhibit Growth, author and six-time second CEO Les Trachtman offers his expertise on the most effective ways to successfully hand off your company to a worthy successor. He also has advice for those who are inheriting a business and want to take it to the next level, as well as for boards who are dealing with these leadership transitions. In his direct, no-nonsense approach, Les shows readers how seemingly harmless business clichés such as "get it right" and "be careful" can have a detrimental effect on a company's future by conveying that such imperative ingredients such as risk and innovation are things to now be avoided. 

Readers will learn how to:
• Understand the metamorphosis required to transition from great founder to great CEO
• Know when, and if, it's time to replace yourself
• Pick the right successor
• Prepare yourself and your company for the fragile transition
• Create a successful CEO transition
• Separate yourself from the company

There is likely no one more experienced in founder transitions than Les Trachtman. He has been an innovative and respected successor at six different companies; let his hard-won advice guide you through your transition and toward success.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158933219
Publisher: River Grove Books
Publication date: 07/18/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 202
File size: 710 KB

About the Author

Les Trachtman has spent the past two decades helping founders in half a dozen growing organizations and acting as a Sherpa for dozens of others. He has taught, written, and lectured about the topic of founder transitions at Harvard Business School, MIT, the University of Southern California and other leading institutions.
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