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- ISBN 9781639090563
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group LLC
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Written for leaders of high-growth companies, a framework for predicting and overcoming obstacles to scale successfully.
Growth is hard. CEOs must constantly evolve to make it through the gauntlet of never-ending challenges. This book is written for leaders like you who recognize that success depends upon harnessing your people's strengths to build a high-functioning and resilient organization.
A groundbreaking leadership framework. Authors Meg Thomas Crosby and Howard Cleveland have helped CEOs, board chairs, investors, and leadership teams achieve just that. In Running theGauntlet, the duo of veteran strategic advisors shows you
- how to predict and prepare for the challenges you'll encounter as your company moves through four stages of growth.
- how to use key levers to proactively drive organizational growth including sharpening focus, calibrating culture, strengthening leadership, and elevating talent.
- how to evolve your role as CEO as the organization becomes larger and more complex.
- how to avoid the pitfalls that derail growth.
Growing a company is both excruciating and exhilarating. This practical model gives CEOs and leadership teams the tools to build sustainable organizations and survive the ruthless growth gauntlet.
Crosby is a strategic advisor to CEOs, boards, and investors. She sits on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards and serves as an Operating Partner with SSM Partners, a growth equity firm focused on investing in software, services, and healthcare companies. During her 20-year career in human resources, she has worked for companies of all shapes and sizes, including a global Wall Street investment bank, a small tech start-up in Los Angeles, and Google.
Cleveland is a strategist who serves as a trusted advisor and professional coach for founders, executives, and leadership teams of purpose-driven businesses, including those that are PE-backed, family-owned, and publicly traded. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in roles as labor and employment attorney, growth advisor, and coach, Howard helps leaders and teams get unstuck and unlock their full growth potential
