Derek Lidow
Startup Leadership
Derek Lidow

Startup Leadership

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Anyone can start a business. But only leaders can succeed.
Most entrepreneurs know the long odds: only a fraction of them will lead their enterprises through the rocky stages of growth to launch self-sustaining companies. Very few know how to outflank the failures that await them at every turn, including the most painful—being abandoned by key members of their team or getting pushed out by their board just as their business starts to generate real value.
Derek Lidow is on a mission to improve these odds and change these outcomes. Throughout his long career—as CEO, innovator, and entrepreneur—he has tested virtually every aspect of launching a business. Lidow now argues that success is far less dependent upon a firm’s idea or any grand strategy than it is upon something more personal: leadership. Emerging companies have specific leadership requirements, stage by fast-moving stage. Few founders have been able to leverage the tremendous…
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  • Per Damhas quoted6 years ago
    There are five skills that all ELs needs to master (best-in-class skills are not requisite for ELs):
    Self-Awareness: Understanding your motivations, traits, and skills
    Enterprise Basics: Understanding how an enterprise works and what an enterprise needs from its leader at each of its stages of maturity
    Relationship Building: Forming new relationships and making existing relationships
  • Shin Loon Leehas quoted6 years ago
    retail, food, distribution, fashion, transportation, or construction.
  • Shin Loon Leehas quoted6 years ago
    provided he could lead himself to act in ways that would make people happy to work with him. Many people itching to be ELs already work in or around the type of business they want to lead.

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