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Peter Sorgenfrei argues that founders who play the hero burn out silently and trap their teams in dependency. Building a leadership duo instead, whether a co-founder or co-CEO, empowers the team and sustains the business long-term.
Peter Sorgenfrei argues that founders who play the hero burn out silently and trap their teams in dependency. Building a leadership duo instead, whether a co-founder or co-CEO, empowers the team and sustains the business long-term.
The reason that being the hero as a founder CEO is a terrible leader strategy is it burns you out silently. Imagine that if you are the one who constantly have to save the day, eventually you cannot do that. The other thing it does is it does not empower your team. It actually just teaches them to be dependent on you for answers and guidance at all turns and twists. So the best thing you can do is to not be the hero, or to be the hero with a sidekick like Batman and Robin, to have somebody alongside of you who supports and helps you in building the business. The most successful companies that I see have a very powerful duo at the helm and not just one hero.
