Running the Gauntlet: Proven Strategies for High-Growth Leaders - Hardcover

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.