Overview
Hire Better. Lead Smarter. Stop Being the Bottleneck. If your business falls apart when you step away, you don't have a team - you have a bottleneck. And that bottleneck is you. Build Kickass Teams is a tactical leadership playbook for founders, small business owners, and managers who are tired of carrying the company on their back. This isn't an HR textbook. It's not corporate fluff. And it's not about being louder or more ""alpha."" It's about building clarity, standards, and structure so your team can perform without constant oversight. Inside, you'll learn how to: - Hire assets and filter liabilities - Onboard with clarity using simple 30/60/90 frameworks - Build accountability systems that don't depend on memory - Delegate outcomes instead of tasks - Address underperformance and toxicity directly - Install leadership rhythms that create consistency and trust Each chapter ends with a Monday Morning Playbook - practical steps you can implement immediately. If you're ready to stop babysitting and start building a team that actually gives a damn, this book gives you the blueprint. Lead boldly. Build intentionally. Scale without burning out.
Full Product Details
Author: Pete Srodoski
Publisher: Pathways Press
Imprint: Pathways Press
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.367kg
ISBN: 9781968056056
ISBN 10: 196805605
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 23 July 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""Pete doesn't sugarcoat anything - and that's exactly what makes this book so valuable. Real talk. Real tools. Real results."" - Stephanie Beck, CEO, Heritage Pallets ""Logical, practical, and battle-tested. Pete's approach cuts through theory and gets to what actually works."" - Josiah Ronco, CEO, Acre Vault ""A must-read for founders who are tired of carrying too much weight for too long."" - Josh Bagby, CEO, Providence Insurance
Author Information
Pete Srodoski is a leadership coach, former CEO and COO, and bestselling author of Lead With Empathy and The Small Business Playbook. After leading $100M+ businesses in e-commerce, wholesale, and retail, Pete saw the same pattern over and over: capable founders stuck as the bottleneck in their own companies.Today, he helps small business owners and leadership teams replace chaos with clarity so their teams can perform without constant oversight. His work focuses on practical leadership design, intentional hiring, accountability systems, and decision ownership.Pete is the founder of Roll With The Punches, a Georgia-based leadership coaching firm, and the creator of the R3 Framework - a simple, tactical operating system built around Vision, Strategy, and Action. He lives in Georgia with his wife and five children.
