SURVIVAL TO SUCCESS
BY PETER BROOKS & GERRY STARSIA
Survival To Success explores the unique challenges faced by the leaders of small, high-growth Enterprises. What this book offers you is not a boiler-plate, “10-step plan for success”. It offers you something better. Tools you can use in your unique situation as an entrepreneurial leader. Tools that will help you grow as your organization grows.
“Some books inspire, others inform—this one does both. Read it with a highlighter and a notepad handy because it is full of strategies, frameworks, and insights that will change how you lead and scale your business.”
— Bart Epstein, CEO, Brains and Motion Education
Survival To Success was written to:
Inspire
Aspiring Leaders
Providing a roadmap for those curious about starting a business.
Support
New Leaders
Helping navigate early-stage challenges with actionable insights.
Reignite
Established Leaders
Offering strategic guidance to address challenges and avoid burnout.
Empower
Leadership Support
Providing tools for advisors and coaches to support entrepreneurial leaders.
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“There is no more exciting, but lonely voyage than starting a company. Brooks and Starsia have provided the ideal companion for that ride. It is filled with valuable insights from successful founders who have made that trip.”
Bob Higgins
Co-Founder Highland Capital and Causeway
Former Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School
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"This is a book I want to give to every one of our portfolio company CEOs. Entrepreneurship is an apprenticeship business. This book showcases examples and frameworks on how to learn leadership. This is not a preordained trait and all great business leaders learn from others!"
Robbie Greenglass
Founder and General Partner of WaterLine Ventures
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“The book is very well written, engaging, with great real-world examples – an easy read – full of leadership gems broken down in simple enough terms that any leader picking up this book could turn to a chapter and implement meaningful actions.”
Chuck Orzechowski
CEO, COO Forum
About the Authors
After a career of starting, acquiring and managing small businesses, Peter now works as an advisor to a small number of not-for-profit endowments and foundations.
Peter Brooks
Gerry Starsia combines a two-decade career in the corporate sector followed by a pivot to higher education executive administration.
