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Founder to CEO: A Recap
How does your leadership change as your company grows?
Just over a year ago I began a series of articles titled “Founder to CEO”. I identified eight key roles that a business leader, whether a startup founder, a scaling business president, or a mature enterprise CEO, must play. For each of the eight roles I spent several weeks writing articles describing the general concepts surrounding those roles, reviewing books related to the roles, and finally describing how the roles change as the business matures. Someday I may turn all of this into a book, and if I do I’ll be able to even out the content somewhat, providing more of the depth in the earlier topics that I provided in later topics. But for now, I want to pull all these articles (and some older ones that are relevant) together into one place to make it easy for you to dive deep into specific topics as you have need.
Overview
From Founder to CEO: Entrepreneurship guru Steve Blank defined a startup as “a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” He defined an enterprise as “a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.” Many of us have been blessed to live, at different times, in each of those worlds, and yet the transition from one to the other can be hard.
