From Start-Up to Grown-Up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business

By: Alisa Cohn

Narrated by: Alisa Cohn

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

Every start-up founder feels overwhelmed and uncertain at various times. The key to managing the relentless turmoil of a start-up is learning to manage yourself.

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 helping companies such as Etsy, Foursquare, InVision, and The Wirecutter become headline names. Growth of your company begins with growth within you. The audiobook provides 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 ensuring the flow of communication and finding the joy of delegation and the soul in meetings. Finally, you gain practical tools for managing the company and ensuring overall effectiveness of your team and strategy, using specific scripts you need to have delicate or difficult conversations.

Filled with stories drawn from the author's experience, From Start-Up to Grown-Up helps you build a company with a set of core values that everybody lives by and where everyone shares a vision of where the company is going and how to get there.

©2021 Alisa Cohn (P)2021 Alisa Cohn

This book speaks to me

This book talks about a lot of situations I have been in and provides calm, cool guidance of what to do in many of the high-stress moments that come with feeding a startup. I love her advice and her sample scripts. I want to give a copy of this book to every founder I know.

Amazing book for foudners

Amazing book on how to face many many challenges of building a business as a founder and handle the hard but necessary conversations and decisions

Start Up Leaders will be riveted

Alisa is a consummate expert and no-nonsense advisor when it comes to guiding leaders through the process of growing and scaling their own leadership in the service of growing their organizations. Founders and entrepreneurs would do well to spent the 7 hours together listening to, and discussing Alisa's timely and timeless advice. It's the next best thing to having her in the room with you!

Eran Kalmanson

I am an experienced startup veteran serving as CTO and VP Eng in multiple startups. I found Alisa Cohn’s book hugely helpful. Many of the examples portrayed in the book are very similar to my own experience in the startups where I worked. I wish I had the opportunity to have this book as an aid when I was dealing with similar challenges. Highly recommended!

Great examples of tough conversations

listen to this book if you are interested in learning about managing people. I found it helpful to learn how to have difficult conversations with employees like firing.