From Start-Up to Grown-up
From Start-Up to Grown-Up gives you, the founder and CEO of a great start-up, the knowledge and experience that executive coach Alisa Cohn has gained from her 2 decades coaching startups, including companies such as Etsy, Venmo, DraftKings, Foursquare and The Wirecutter.
The book is a guidebook for anyone who wants to grow as a leader. The first person you lead every day is yourself, so that’s where we start - providing you with effective and practical ways of maximizing your strengths, defusing your triggers, controlling your self-doubt and building on your motivators. With these self-management tools, you can then turn your attention to managing your team by learning how to communicate, how to diagnose and build culture, and how to find the soul in meetings. You’ll also discover the tools of management: how to delegate, give feedback, and create the environment for people to do their best work. In the last section, you’ll gain practical tools for managing the company as well as build the right relationship with your cofounder and your board. Finally, the appendix contains 14 scripts for you to use in holding your delicate or difficult conversations - never easy but essential to the success of your company.
Filled with stories drawn from Alisa’s experience, entertaining and practical, From Start-Up to Grown-Up is the critical handbook to gain the tools to build the company of your dreams.
Praise for “From Start-Up to Grown-Up”
“The Miami tech movement has been born and bred out of an innovative and collaborative spirit. From Start-up to Grown-up is an incredible resource to help the founders who are building our ecosystem grow as their companies scale.”
-Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami
“I am a serial entrepreneur and have recently jumped into executive coaching startup founders and CEOs. This book provides a deep dive into critical topics that all entrepreneurs should contemplate if they want to build a successful business.”
-Andy S.
“Start-up founder to CEO is a big stretch along the entrepreneurial path. Read this useful, tough-love guidebook, and you will understand why Alisa is such a sought-after start-up coach.”
-Eric Schurenberg, CEO of Inc. and Fast Company
“This book is a breakthrough and should be essential reading for anyone who is ready to lead and to make a difference. Highly recommended.”
-Seth Godin, Author of This is Marketing
“Alisa eloquently provides the reader with a detailed map for achieving entrepreneurial success! It starts with getting crystal clear about who your start-up self really is vs. what it needs to be in order to be successful.”
-John M.