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The Founder's Survival Guide: Lead your business from start-up to scale-up to grown-up
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.
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Understand what your business, people and stakeholders require of you at different stages of growth, and adapt your leadership style accordinglyMaster the skills of communicating to influence and communicating to manage, and know when to use whichStay energetically fit for the marathon, not the sprintAvoid the self-sabotaging ego defences that can hold back even the most inspiring founderScale your leadership as you scale your business – from start-up to scale-up to grown-up
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.
Read this book
Understand what your business, people and stakeholders require of you at different stages of growth, and adapt your leadership style accordinglyMaster the skills of communicating to influence and communicating to manage, and know when to use whichStay energetically fit for the marathon, not the sprintAvoid the self-sabotaging ego defences that can hold back even the most inspiring founderScale your leadership as you scale your business – from start-up to scale-up to grown-up
- GenresPersonal Development
258 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 23, 2022
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January 14, 2023
I'm biased because Rachel is my business coach and a trusted friend.
Having said that, I've been sharing the book with my clients, who universally agree with my praise for this explanation of the "Founder's" strengths and weaknesses and how best to manage them.
In clear and entertaining language, Rachel describes the three modus operandi of Brave Warrior, Considered Architect and Wise Monarch and explains when to "dial up" and "dial down" behaviours, so as to bring teams and businesses to their full potential.
She then explains best-practice communication styles with different audiences and ends with a useful summary of personal development tips.
The book is full of self-evaluation exercise and ends with a toolkit for further evaluation and progress.
It's a guide to success, written from a perspective of humility and experience.
Essential reading for any aspiring, beginning or experienced business owner.
Having said that, I've been sharing the book with my clients, who universally agree with my praise for this explanation of the "Founder's" strengths and weaknesses and how best to manage them.
In clear and entertaining language, Rachel describes the three modus operandi of Brave Warrior, Considered Architect and Wise Monarch and explains when to "dial up" and "dial down" behaviours, so as to bring teams and businesses to their full potential.
She then explains best-practice communication styles with different audiences and ends with a useful summary of personal development tips.
The book is full of self-evaluation exercise and ends with a toolkit for further evaluation and progress.
It's a guide to success, written from a perspective of humility and experience.
Essential reading for any aspiring, beginning or experienced business owner.
July 7, 2023
I’ve just finished reading The Founder’s Survival Guide and thought it was brilliant. The book was recommended it to me by my business coach Chris Barrow and having become the owner of a dental practice in last year, this book has helped me immensely. I particularly the Communication sections illuminating.
Essential reading for current and aspiring business owners of all sizes.
Essential reading for current and aspiring business owners of all sizes.
April 7, 2025
Great and succinct
Action-orientated and focused. Rachel condenses a tremendous amount of stories and tools that are invaluable to a founder.
A quick read, the book is brimming with content and doesn't fall into the trap of so much other non-fiction writing which is to flesh out one idea for 300 pages.
Action-orientated and focused. Rachel condenses a tremendous amount of stories and tools that are invaluable to a founder.
A quick read, the book is brimming with content and doesn't fall into the trap of so much other non-fiction writing which is to flesh out one idea for 300 pages.
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