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portada The Hero Trap: The Leader's Shift from Doing to Designing
Type
Physical Book
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.86x15.24 cm
ISBN13
9798890572479

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

Bill Flynn (Author) · Berrett-Koehler Publishers · Paperback

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

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

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
specific diagnostics to find where you're stuck;frameworks to delegate authority—not just tasks;the tools to know when to lead from the front and when to get out of the way; anda system for building self-sustaining teams that scale without you.
With a foreword by Marshall Goldsmith, whose own work on leadership transformation inspired this book, The Hero Trap does what other leadership books rarely manage: It moves you from shepherding the present to designing the future.

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