How startup entrepreneurs can make the leap from founder to long-term leaderWhy do so many entrepreneurs found innovative enterprises, only to find themselves failing as leaders once the business gets off the ground? Because, according to Derek Lidow, being an entrepreneur is fundamentally different from being a business leader. In Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas into Successful Enterprises, Lidow shows how to avoid the mistakes that confounded thousands of "geniuses"—even Steve Jobs—and become an Entrepreneurial Leader who combines the opposing natures of the entrepreneur and the leader.
An entrepreneur's goal is making his or her vision a reality—a basically selfish, though beneficial, act. A leader, on the other hand, focuses on others, forging individuals with differing wants, needs, and visions into a winning team. In Startup Leadership, entrepreneur and professor Derek Lidow outlines exactly how one can balance these two opposing natures and provides you with the skills and tools to become an Entrepreneurial Leader.
- Based on Lidow's popular and well-respected course at Princeton University
- Developed out of extensive research and real-world experience
- Distills Lidow's insights into best practices for growing with the company you created
- Prepares to avoid the unseen traps that trip up many entrepreneurs
With a unique approach based on extensive research and real-world application, Startup Leadership is a roadmap for innovators who seek to become Entrepreneurial Leaders who can successfully lead their team, enterprise, and themselves to lasting success.
Derek Lidow is a longtime global CEO, innovator, and entrepreneur. Among other accomplishments, Lidow is widely known as one of the world’s top experts on the electronics industry; his contributions range from patents to value chain applications that have forever improved companies as diverse as Sony, Samsung, Philips, Goldman Sachs, and IBM.
Today, Lidow teaches Entrepreneurial Leadership and Creativity, Innovation, and Design at Princeton University. He keynotes on the subject of startup leadership and is a media commentator; Lidow’s coverage to date includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Bloomberg, the Economist, Nikkei, Reuters, and Taipei Times, as well as many top bloggers.
Prior to joining Princeton’s faculty, Lidow was founder and CEO of iSuppli, which he sold to IHS in 2010 for over $100 million. Lidow’s degrees are from Princeton and Stanford, where he earned a PhD in applied physics as a Hertz Foundation Fellow. He is based in New York City and Princeton, New Jersey.
For more information, please visit DerekLidow.com.
Chapter One Success Requires More Than Entrepreneurship
Part One Prerequisites: Mastering the Skills of Entrepreneurial Leadership
Chapter Two Are You Selfish Enough to Be Selfless?
Chapter Three Enterprises Are Needy
Chapter Four Building Relationships
Chapter Five Motivating Others
Chapter Six Leading Change
Chapter Seven Creating a Personal Leadership Strategy
Part Two Application of Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills
Chapter Eight Strategizing Fragile Growth
Chapter Nine Organizing to Succeed
Chapter Ten Hiring and Firing
Chapter Eleven Leading Teams
Chapter Twelve Leading Through Crises
Chapter Thirteen The Selfish Rewards of Selfless Entrepreneurial Acts
Appendix A Motivations, Traits, and Skills
Appendix B The Five Essential Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills
Appendix C Characteristics of Projects, Processes, and Culture
Appendix D Characteristics of Stage One Enterprises and Their Leaders
Appendix E Characteristics of Stage Two Enterprises and Their Leaders
Appendix F Characteristics of Stage Three Enterprises and Their Leaders
Appendix G Characteristics of Stage Four Enterprises and Their Leaders
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