Owner Roles and Traps

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Owner Roles and Traps

What made you a strong owner may be why the business still cannot run without you.

This book studies the roles, decisions and habits of control that pull an owner back into daily operations. What helped the company grow may later limit its ability to work independently. Through specific traps and nine owner transitions, it asks which functions have really been delegated and which still depend on you. It promises no instant exit from operations. The focus is on observable changes in role, responsibility and the way the company works.

Valeriy Pozhidaev / Founder, COMPASS POZHIDAEV

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Contents

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I. Seeing the cage

  1. When the owner’s strength becomes the business ceilingIn preparation
  2. The business that was meant to expand you begins to diminish youIn preparation
  3. The old role has ended; the new one has yet to emergeIn preparation
  4. Five levels of business beyond financial reportsIn preparation
  5. From indispensable operator to owner of a systemIn preparation

II. How traps work

  1. How a strong owner becomes the bottleneckIn preparation
  2. Five functional trapsIn preparation
  3. Second-order trapsIn preparation
  4. Why simply hiring a CEO does not solve the problemIn preparation
  5. The outdated-reality trapIn preparation
  6. The fixed-route trapIn preparation
  7. The tool trapIn preparation

III. The way out

  1. The transition demanded by the next levelIn preparation
  2. Purpose, mission and the scale of the gameIn preparation
  3. Seeing, changing and testing the way outIn preparation

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