Obsolete (Paperback)
Samiran Ghosh
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Add to basketPaperback. Marcus is the CEO of a SaaS company that is quietly successful, and quietly dying.The numbers are good. Revenue up fourteen percent year on year. The board is happy. The team is shipping. And Marcus has just realized, sitting on a flight back from an industry conference, that the assumption his company was built on is no longer true. Not in five years. Now.He has sixty days before the next board meeting. Sixty days to decide whether to tell them what he has seen - or to keep performing the comfortable version of the truth until the market makes the decision for him. He has done this once before, at his previous company. He waited too long. He still wakes at three in the morning some nights, holding the regret of seeing something clearly, too late. This time he is not going to wait.OBSOLETE is a business literary novel about the gap between realization and destruction, the narrow window in which every leader either acts on what they have seen, or inherits the wreckage of acting too late.It is a book about Schumpeterian creative destruction told from the inside of a single sixty-day decision: the conversations, the resignations, the architecture of consequence, the cost of acting early, and the deeper cost of not. For senior executives, founders, and operators who have ever sat in a boardroom and known something the room did not yet know - and wondered when, or whether, to say it out loud.The compliance architecture framework Nadia builds in this novel is not fiction. The author built it. OBSOLETE is a business literary novel This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Marcus is the CEO of a SaaS company that is quietly successful, and quietly dying.
The numbers are good. Revenue up fourteen percent year on year. The board is happy. The team is shipping. And Marcus has just realized, sitting on a flight back from an industry conference, that the assumption his company was built on is no longer true. Not in five years. Now.
He has sixty days before the next board meeting. Sixty days to decide whether to tell them what he has seen - or to keep performing the comfortable version of the truth until the market makes the decision for him. He has done this once before, at his previous company. He waited too long. He still wakes at three in the morning some nights, holding the regret of seeing something clearly, too late. This time he is not going to wait.
OBSOLETE is a business literary novel about the gap between realization and destruction, the narrow window in which every leader either acts on what they have seen, or inherits the wreckage of acting too late.
It is a book about Schumpeterian creative destruction told from the inside of a single sixty-day decision: the conversations, the resignations, the architecture of consequence, the cost of acting early, and the deeper cost of not. For senior executives, founders, and operators who have ever sat in a boardroom and known something the room did not yet know - and wondered when, or whether, to say it out loud.
The compliance architecture framework Nadia builds in this novel is not fiction. The author built it.
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