Startup Leadership
Derek Lidow
Wiley
<p><b>Anyone can start a business. But only leaders can succeed.</b></p><p>Most entrepreneurs know the long odds: only a fraction of them will lead their enterprises through the rocky stages of growth to launch self-sustaining companies. Very few know how to outflank the failures that await them at every turn, including the most painful&mdash;being abandoned by key members of their team or getting pushed out by their board just as their business starts to generate real value.</p><p>Derek Lidow is on a mission to improve these odds and change these outcomes. Throughout his long career&mdash;as CEO, innovator, and entrepreneur&mdash;he has tested virtually every aspect of launching a business. Lidow now argues that success is far less dependent upon a firm&rsquo;s idea or any grand strategy than it is upon something more personal: leadership. Emerging companies have specific leadership requirements, stage by fast-moving stage. Few founders have been able to leverage the tremendous...