Run Your Business, Don't Let It Run You Learning and Living Professional Management

Millions of business owners and leaders need help making the transition from a start-up or founder-centered firm to professional management. This book teaches them the best ways to make this transition.

Clay Mathile, former owner of the Iams Company, founded Aileron in 1996, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping private businesses employ proven approaches to raise the overall effectiveness of their organizations. He is currently chairman of the board.

Preface
Introduction: No More 16-Hour Days

Part One: A Better Way to Run a Business
Chapter 1: Is Your Business Running You?
Chapter 2: Shifting to Professional Management

Part Two: Learning Professional Management
Chapter 3: How You Lead
Leadership
Chapter 4: Your Dream with a Plan
Strategy
Chapter 5: Grow Your People, Grow Your Business
People Development
Chapter 6: Aligning Your Business with Your Vision
Business Structure
Chapter 7: The Keys to Accountability
Performance Management
Chapter 8: Culture—the Engine Moving Your Business
Living Your Values
Chapter 9: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
An Effective Outside Board

Part Three: Living Professional Management
Chapter 10: The Business of the Family
Chapter 11: Sustainability and Succession
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
About Aileron