CEO Today - November 2022

43 Best read for: New Founders The Founder’s Survival Guide Rachel Turner £14.99/$19.99, Rethink Press Rachel Turner is co-founder of VC Talent Lab which offers founder and scale-up coaching to ambitious founders in venture-capital-backed environments. Rachel believes that if founders do not scale their leadership as they grow their company, they are unlikely to survive. With her ground-breaking book The Founder’s Survival Guide, Rachel reveals how leaders can shift from ‘brave warrior’, to ‘considered architect’, to ‘wise monarch’ as their business grows, all by adapting their leadership style. It addresses some of the most common challenges scaleup founders face and provides an extensive toolbox to help founders manage their team, their energy and their mind. With a passion to help new founders navigate an often isolating, overwhelming and stressful path, Rachel is able todrawonher 20+years of experience as a transformative leadership advisor to start-up and scale-up businesses. Described by Rachel as ‘a love letter to founders’, The Founder’s Survival Guide aims to help readers understand what their business, people and stakeholders require from them at different stages of growth and adapt their leadership style accordingly. It also reveals how to avoid the self-sabotaging ego defences that can hold back even the most inspiring founder.

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