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The Hero Trap: The Leader's Shift from Doing to Designing

The Hero Trap: The Leader's Shift from Doing to Designing

Flynn, Bill
Goldsmith, Marshall

Paperback

Management

Publisher Price: $24.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 27, 2026

ISBN13: 9798890572479
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 224
Language: English
Great leaders create teams and companies that don't need great leaders.

That idea might stop you cold. Good.

Exhausted. 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.

This is the hero trap. Most high-performing leaders don't recognize the pattern until they're burning out inside it.

Bill 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.

The Hero Trap gives you the proven path. Through the story of CEO Alex Chen and Flynn's controller-builder-architect framework, you'll get

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