Title: Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist / Edition 1
Author: Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, Dick Costolo (Foreword by)
ISBN-10: 0470929820
ISBN-13: 9780470929827
It is risky to be CEO of a corporation today. The average tenure ofCEOs in major companies is growing increasingly short. The newsmedia is filled with stories of “fallen idols.” CEOs have gone fromthe lists of “most admired” to those of “least trusted.” Whathappens when such clearly talented leaders also make poordecisions, alienate key people, miss opportunities, and ignoreobvious trends and developments? What lessons can everyday leaderswho aspire to be effective and move up an organization learn fromthe failures of those at the top? Written by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo, two of thecountry’s top executive coaches, educators, and authors, WhyCEOs Fail shows that even the best leaders can sabotage theirown success by succumbing to certain flawed behaviors that areoften closely tied to the factors that make for success. Moreimportant, the authors reveal how leaders at every level can becomeaware of their own negative behaviors and take steps to controlthem. Drawing on research and real stories based on their experiencein educating and coaching thousands of leaders around the world,Dotlich and Cairo describe eleven derailers that can impactjudgment and lead to business and career problems, even failure.The authors show how leaders who aspire to be successful can learnto identify the “shadow side” of their personality and take stepsto control their impulses and increase their effectiveness andimpact. Using a variety of tools and techniques based on theirexperience in coaching CEOs and senior executives, the authorsprovide specific steps to help individuals identify their ownderailers and simple, practical methods that leaders can use tomanage themselves effectively.
