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Sovereign Playbook: How to Run a Startup and Avoid the Pitfalls
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the sharpest business lessons weren't hiding in MBA textbooks-but in the shows you already watch?
SOVEREIGN PLAYBOOK extracts thirty startup and leadership laws from eight pop-culture universes-Game of Thrones, Star Trek, Office Space, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Wire, Smallville, Billions, and Power-then validates every one against real MBA frameworks (Porter, Christensen, Goleman, Schein, Senge) and real-world proof points from Jay-Z, 2Pac, Toyota, Google, and the author's own career building six companies with zero venture capital.
- Why culture eats strategy (and how to set yours on Day 1)
- How to lead under pressure without micromanaging
- When to pivot vs. when to hold your course
- How the underdog wins-with resourcefulness, not funding
- The founder traps that destroy companies from the inside
Part business manual. Part pop-culture study. Part founder memoir. Written by a builder from the South Side of Chicago who turned anxiety into architecture and a layoff into a launchpad.
Thirty laws. Eight worlds. One doctrine. Yours.
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