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OverviewRunning a company should not feel like carrying a machine on your back. Yet for most founders, executives, and operators, that is exactly what it becomes. Your days fill with meetings, follow-ups, approvals, and decisions that never seem to end. The business grows, but so does the weight. Everything still depends on you and a few other exhausted people pushing work forward, catching mistakes, and keeping the whole thing from slipping into chaos. It does not feel hard because the work is hard. It feels hard because the system is wrong. Most companies are not built to run. They are built to be carried. And the cost of that design shows up everywhere: in burnout, in slow execution, in endless coordination, and in the quiet fear that if you step away for even a week, things will start to break. How to Run a Company Without Running Yourself Into the Ground is a practical, grounded guide to a different way of building organizations. A way where work moves because the system is designed to move it. Where people stop being the glue. Where the company becomes calmer, faster, and more reliable at the same time. This book is not about hype. It is not about replacing people. And it is not about futuristic promises. It is about replacing chaos with structure. Inside, you will discover why most companies do not struggle because they lack talent or ideas, but because their operations do not scale. You will learn how modern organizations are quietly shifting from people-driven work to system-driven work, and why small teams with the right operating model are starting to outperform much larger ones. You will be guided through a clear, practical framework for autonomous operations: what it really means, how it works, and how to think about it without technical jargon or fantasy. You will see how work can flow from intent to execution to reporting without constant human pushing, and where humans should stay in the loop for safety, quality, and judgment. Most importantly, you will learn how to redesign your company itself. Not with abstract theory, but with concrete operating principles: how to identify what to automate first, how to move from manual to assisted to autonomous operations without blowing up your organization, how to stay in control with visibility and guardrails, and how to avoid the silent failure modes that break poorly designed systems. This book is written for founders who are tired of being the bottleneck. For operators who are exhausted from holding everything together. For leaders who want to build a company that scales without consuming their lives. By the end, you will no longer see your business as a collection of people doing tasks. You will see it as a machine that can be designed. And once you see that, you cannot unsee it. If you want a company that grows without breaking, executes without chaos, and runs without burning you down, this book will change how you think about work, leadership, and scale. Your real job is no longer to carry the company. Your real job is to design the machine. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John EthanPublisher: Independently Published Imprint: Independently Published Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9798245839332Pages: 178 Publication Date: 27 January 2026 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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