The Founder's Mentality

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How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth

By Chris Zook and James Allen

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The Founder's Mentality by Chris Zook and James Allen explores how successful businesses maintain growth and vitality by adopting the mindset and practices of their founding teams. The book argues that maintaining a founder's mentality—characterised by an insurgent mission, an obsession with the frontline, and an owner's mindset—can help established companies overcome growth crises and complexities. It provides insights and strategies for businesses to harness this mentality to sustain growth and innovation.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by how key entrepreneurial traits can drive company growth and success. It dives into how maintaining a founder’s mindset can help businesses overcome challenges, address complexity, and thrive amid competitive pressures. Ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders keen on fostering innovation and resilience within their companies.

The Founder's Mentality

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. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core

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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.

But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that 90 percent of the challenges to growth are internal: increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, and proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few.

More crucial is their finding that companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow; and that for even the healthiest companies, these crises, if not managed properly, can stifle the company's ability to grow further — and actively lead it into decline.

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The Founder's Mentality by Chris Zook and James Allen has received positive acclaim for its insightful exploration of maintaining a company's core strengths while scaling. It emphasises the importance of a founder's influence in fostering innovation, passion, and agility, traits that can lead to enhanced business performance and shareholder returns. The book is praised for its practical insights, supported by extensive research, on how to preserve a start-up mentality, making it essential reading for entrepreneurs and business leaders striving for sustainable growth.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633691162

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 June 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 425g

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Business Strategy & Negotiation Chris Zook James Allen Non-Fiction

About the Author

Chris Zook is a partner at Bain & Company and has been co-head of the firm's Global Strategy practice for twenty years. He is based in Boston and Amsterdam and specializes in helping companies find new sources of profitable growth.

James Allen is a partner in Bain's London office. Co-head of the firm's Global Strategy practice, he is founder of the Bain Founder's Mentality 100, a global network of high-growth companies.

Zook and Allen are the authors of five bestselling books on strategy, including Profit from the Core.

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