{"product_id":"9798890572479_the-hero-trap","title":"The Hero Trap","description":"\u003cb\u003eGreat leaders create teams and companies that don't need great leaders.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat idea might stop you cold. Good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExhausted. Overwhelmed. You're the hero of your organization . . . and its biggest bottleneck. Every decision waits for your approval. Every problem lands on your desk. The harder you work, the more your team needs you. The behaviors that made you successful—solving problems fast, always being available, leading from the front—have become your organization's ceiling. Your competence becomes your captivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the hero trap. Most high-performing leaders don't recognize the pattern until they're burning out inside it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill Flynn spent thirty years leading startups through IPOs and acquisitions before coaching hundreds of executives out of exactly this pattern. What he discovered is that the shift isn't about working differently. It's about becoming someone different—moving from the smartest person in the room to the leader who makes every room smarter than any one person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hero Trap\u003c\/i\u003e gives you the proven path. Through the story of CEO Alex Chen and Flynn's controller-builder-architect framework, you'll get\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003especific diagnostics to find where you're stuck;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eframeworks to delegate authority—not just tasks;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe tools to know when to lead from the front and when to get out of the way; and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea system for building self-sustaining teams that scale without you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a foreword by Marshall Goldsmith, whose own work on leadership transformation inspired this book, \u003ci\u003eThe Hero Trap\u003c\/i\u003e does what other leadership books rarely manage: It moves you from shepherding the present to designing the future.","brand":"Bill Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53075717456235,"sku":"9798890572479","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0899\/9308\/5291\/files\/9798890572479.jpg?v=1778274048","url":"https:\/\/bkconnection.com\/products\/9798890572479_the-hero-trap","provider":"Berrett-Koehler Publishers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}