Customer Reviews

The Founder Factor

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The Founder Factor is a refreshingly readable book that hones in on the critical, predictive characteristics of Founder CEOs that are strengths and weaknesses for the important growth stages of a young business. She must have considerable experience in working with headstrong Founders because her comments are insightful and candid.

The intensity of focus required from an entrepreneur to turn an idea into a viable company can leave little time for reflection or networking. When I read this book, I got very excited: someone who understands the way I'm wired! Nancy Truitt Pierce's work is an important contribution to the business management bookshelf.

Pierce illuminates key factors that not only describe but predict Founder led organization behavior, successes and failures. Until now, not enough attention has been paid to the uniqueness of these organizations.

For anyone who has worked in or with such an organization, or for anyone who is thinking about joining a Founder led company....this is a must read. For Founders who welcome unabashed sometimes personal insight, this should be a staple on their bookshelf.

I found this book to be of limited value. It seems to be written to pat the author's clients and contacts on the back, and to promote her business more than provide deep insight. Reading it felt more like a primer for "want to be" entreprenuers. It certainly didn't deliver on the promise of the subtitle "inside secrets for growing a billion dollar business." Really? This is how you build a billion dollar business? The repetitive references, and lack of depth strucj me as "baby steps" at best. Being an entreprenuer myself, and having chaired two dozen nonporfit organizations in my life, I've experienced or faced the founder syndrome numerous times, and couldn't relate to the broad observations provided here.