The Founder's Gauntlet
The growing pains have names
Brett Thomas
The Founder's Gauntlet
The problems have a name, a developmental logic, and a sequenced path through them.
What feels like a run of unrelated fires is usually one pattern arriving in order. Naming the sequence changes what you do next.
Decisions take longer. Hires create overhead instead of relieving it. Delegation bounces back. Meetings multiply. Good people start asking for clarity you thought you had already given.
These are not separate problems. They are the recognized growing pains of a specific stage, and they arrive in a sequence that can be anticipated.
This book gives you the names, the order, and the sequenced work that resolves them rather than the general advice that does not.
A diagnostic catalog of growing pains mapped to lifecycle position, so the symptom points to the stage and the stage points to the work.
The Founder's Trap
When your strengths become the ceiling
Brett Thomas
The Founder's Trap
When your strengths become the ceiling
The Founder's Journey
Building a company. Becoming a leader.
Brett Thomas
The Founder's Journey
Building a company. Becoming a leader.
The Founder's Crucible
Leading through the AI redesign
Brett Thomas
The Founder's Crucible
Leading through the AI redesign