I wrote this book because entrepreneurs are trained to think about launch, growth, scale, and survival, but we do not always think seriously about absence. What happens when the founder is ill, unavailable, no longer trusted, ready to retire, or dead? What remains when personality can no longer hold the organization together? Those questions are not morbid to me. They are stewardship questions.
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Faith in Entrepreneurship · Volume 7 of 7 · Catalog 43031
Eternal Legacy
Build Beyond the Grave
A practical guide for founders preparing successors, families, organizations, and essential decisions for the day the builder is no longer present.
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A practical guide for founders preparing successors, families, organizations, and essential decisions for the day the builder is no longer present. It reframes legacy as transferable responsibility rather than permanent recognition, addressing founder dependency, family agency, delegated authority, institutional memory, estate and business structures, public impact, repair, sale, closure, mortality, and the wisdom to let future leaders exercise real judgment.
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