The Founder's Treadmill: A Field Guide to Owning a Business, Not a Job
Grau Sr. JD, David
ISBN 13: 9798999806116
Published by Business Transitions Publishing, LLC, 2026
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IF YOUR BUSINESS STILL DEPENDS ON YOU FOR EVERYTHING, IT MAY BE STRONGER THAN IT LOOKS — AND FAR MORE FRAGILE THAN YOU THINK.
From the outside, your business may look successful. Revenue is coming in. Customers are being served. The team is growing. But underneath that progress, too much may still depend on you.
If you are the one making the key decisions, solving the hardest problems, protecting quality, managing the most important relationships, and keeping everything moving, you are not just leading the business. You are carrying it.
That is the founder’s treadmill.
And if you stay on it too long, the costs compound. Growth becomes harder to sustain. Leadership becomes more exhausting. The business becomes more difficult to scale, harder to transfer, and less valuable than it should be.
The Founder’s Treadmill is a practical field guide for small business owners who want to build something better: a business that is stronger, more profitable, more durable, more valuable, and less founder-dependent.
Because the goal is not simply to run faster.
It is to build a business that can grow beyond you.
About the Author: David Grau Sr., JD, is an award-winning author, former attorney and securities regulator, and longtime advocate for small business owners who want to build something that lasts and makes a difference.<br><br>For more than thirty years, he has worked with founders and owners on the real-world issues that determine whether a business becomes a durable asset or remains dependent on the person at the center of it. He's spent much of his career helping owners think through succession planning, enterprise value, continuity, leadership transition, and long-term business perpetuation. Over time, that work has convinced him of something simple but important: too many good businesses are built around one hardworking founder and never fully become businesses that can thrive without them.<br><br>That realization drives his most recent writings.<br><br>David Sr. writes for small business owners who want to build more than a job for themselves. He writes for founders who want to create businesses that are durable, profitable, valuable, and transferable — businesses with stronger systems, stronger teams, and more long-term options.<br><br>With the publication of <i>The Founder's Treadmill</i>, he now has six nonfiction books in print for small business owners who want to make a lasting difference.
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Title: The Founder's Treadmill: A Field Guide to ...
Publisher: Business Transitions Publishing, LLC
Publication Date: 2026
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New