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Talreja V: Before You Become a Founder

Before You Become a Founder

What to Learn,Build, and Unlearn While You're Still At It

A lesson-packed success story for the twenty-first century, from a ninth-generation Kentuckian who imported the Silicon Valley playbook to the heartland, revealing how the entrepreneurial mindset can be applied anywhere, and even to our most stubborn industries. In his case: trash. When Nate Morris decided to build a business, he wasn’t looking to disrupt—he was looking for a problem to solve. Morris believed that the bigger the problem, the more the market would reward him for solving it. And one of the biggest problems, he came to believe, was one that every person, business, and community dealt with on a daily basis, but which was often overlooked: waste. American Trash is the moving story of how a ninth-generation Kentuckian—a boy who grew up being called “white trash”—applied the innovative thinking we associate with Silicon Valley startups to the ancient problem of waste. Raised on the scrappy resourcefulness of his grandfather, president of their local autoworkers’ union, Morris built Rubicon, a waste management company powered by digital technology. Unlike the bloated industry titans of yesterday, Rubicon was asset light: It wouldn’t own landfills, so it would be free of the perverse incentive to fill the land with chemical-laden trash, and it wouldn’t own trucks, so it would support “mom and pop” hauler businesses. Most important, it would be based in Georgia and Kentucky, thousands of miles from the near-sighted culture of Silicon Valley. In telling his story, Morris shows how he combined the great tradition of American entrepreneurship with the lessons of the digital economy—and did it far from the coastal bastions of the technology elite. The result is a blueprint for those seeking to tackle our biggest challenges with creative, free-market solutions.

A lesson-packed success story for the twenty-first century, from a ninth-generation Kentuckian who imported the Silicon Valley playbook to the heartland, revealing how the entrepreneurial mindset can be applied anywhere, and even to our most stubborn industries. In his case: trash. When Nate Morris decided to build a business, he wasn’t looking to disrupt—he was looking for a problem to solve. Morris believed that the bigger the problem, the more the market would reward him for solving it. And one of the biggest problems, he came to believe, was one that every person, business, and community dealt with on a daily basis, but which was often overlooked: waste. American Trash is the moving story of how a ninth-generation Kentuckian—a boy who grew up being called “white trash”—applied the innovative thinking we associate with Silicon Valley startups to the ancient problem of waste. Raised on the scrappy resourcefulness of his grandfather, president of their local autoworkers’ union, Morris built Rubicon, a waste management company powered by digital technology. Unlike the bloated industry titans of yesterday, Rubicon was asset light: It wouldn’t own landfills, so it would be free of the perverse incentive to fill the land with chemical-laden trash, and it wouldn’t own trucks, so it would support “mom and pop” hauler businesses. Most important, it would be based in Georgia and Kentucky, thousands of miles from the near-sighted culture of Silicon Valley. In telling his story, Morris shows how he combined the great tradition of American entrepreneurship with the lessons of the digital economy—and did it far from the coastal bastions of the technology elite. The result is a blueprint for those seeking to tackle our biggest challenges with creative, free-market solutions.

Hard-Earned Lessons from a Heartland Entrepreneur

American Trash

FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship

This interdisciplinary volume introduces Entrepreneurial Life Design (ELD) as a transformative framework for navigating personal and professional transitions in an era of uncertainty. Drawing from entrepreneurship education, human-centered design, and career development, the book offers theoretical foundations, empirical insights, and practical tools to foster purpose, resilience, and adaptability. Contributions from leading scholars and practitioners explore ELD’s application across educational, organizational, and societal contexts, with case studies and program models that support learners, professionals, and changemakers. By integrating research-based strategies with real-world relevance, this volume empowers individuals and institutions to design sustainable, value-driven futures. It is an essential resource for educators, coaches, researchers, and anyone seeking clarity and agency in shaping their life and career paths.

A New Paradigm for Personal and Professional Growth

Entrepreneurial Life Design

For American workers, the social contract is broken. This book gives a firsthand view of where the breaks occurred, and a prescription for rebuilding it to give workers their due. With AI making the decisions and CEOs and moguls making the money, sometimes it seems that most workers today might as well be drones. If not for a long string of missed opportunities over the last 50 years, it might have been different. In Roads Not Taken, Thomas Kochan reviews the turning points where the social contract fractured and broke, reducing workers’ voices as well as their compensation, benefits, and status. And in the lessons learned from these historical examples, he identifies the foundation for building a new labor relations system that ensures workers will share in the benefits from AI and puts America on course for an innovative and durable social contract at work. As a longtime advisor to government, labor, and management leaders, Kochan offers an eyewitness perspective on the mounting mistakes made in America’s labor relations system beginning, roughly, with Ronald Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers in 1981. His book makes a strong case for new strategies on the part of labor unions and other worker advocacy groups, business, and government—strategies not wedded to the legacy labor law and practice that have failed American workers for so long. Recasting the social contract on this basis, Kochan insists, is key to rebuilding our democracy and its institutions after the damage wrought in recent years.

For American workers, the social contract is broken. This book gives a firsthand view of where the breaks occurred, and a prescription for rebuilding it to give workers their due. With AI making the decisions and CEOs and moguls making the money, sometimes it seems that most workers today might as well be drones. If not for a long string of missed opportunities over the last 50 years, it might have been different. In Roads Not Taken, Thomas Kochan reviews the turning points where the social contract fractured and broke, reducing workers’ voices as well as their compensation, benefits, and status. And in the lessons learned from these historical examples, he identifies the foundation for building a new labor relations system that ensures workers will share in the benefits from AI and puts America on course for an innovative and durable social contract at work. As a longtime advisor to government, labor, and management leaders, Kochan offers an eyewitness perspective on the mounting mistakes made in America’s labor relations system beginning, roughly, with Ronald Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers in 1981. His book makes a strong case for new strategies on the part of labor unions and other worker advocacy groups, business, and government—strategies not wedded to the legacy labor law and practice that have failed American workers for so long. Recasting the social contract on this basis, Kochan insists, is key to rebuilding our democracy and its institutions after the damage wrought in recent years.

Lessons for Building a New Social Contract at Work

Roads Not Taken

Palgrave Studies in Family Business Heterogeneity

This book explores the emotional dimensions of family businesses, offering a thorough and critical analysis of the latest research and practice. Through an in-depth qualitative study, the author examines the emotional dynamics and cultural nuances that influence firm governance, their evolution over time, and the role they play at the individual, interpersonal, group and business levels. She introduces a roadmap for sustaining &nbsp;family businesses by effectively addressing emotional dynamics. Based on data from multiple family business stakeholders across Europe, Asia, and North and Latin America, this insightful work offers a balance treatment of emotions that will appeal to researchers in family business entrepreneurship, strategy, and psychology.

Perspectives, Archetypes, and Drivers

Unveiling Emotion in Heterogeneous Family Enterprises, Volume 1

More isn’t always better

The Redesign of Progress

Kamal Shair's book is a classic rags to riches story: the village boy, who with determination and education, achieves business success, wealth, more wealth, and then influence and power. What makes it unusual is that it emanates from the Arab world. Rarely among Arabs have individuals from thoroughly modest backgrounds, with no access to links, networks or connections become truly global commercial players. Shair was born in a small town in what was then Transjordan and dragged himself through school (his mother was illiterate), moved to college in Beirut, then sailed off to America (Michigan and Yale) and returned to the Middle East to create a multinational corporate empire engaged in trade, construction and manufacturing. Dar al Handasah - Arabic for House of Engineers - was founded in a small flat in Beirut and today, spans the globe with offices in 37 countries. In its early years, Dar al Handasah fought off competition from established western consultancies to win contracts for prestige engineering throughout the Middle East. Eventually, its activities extended further to Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia. By not following the usual pattern of patronage and favours, Kamal Shair applied a fresh kind of ethic in an environment with a loosely-structured business ethic. In the process, he lived through and witnessed at first hand and at close quarters some of the most dramatic events of the modern Arab world. This is quite an extraordinary tale and a very original prism through which to read the turbulent post-World War II history of the Middle East. At the same time we see the growth, despite all the odds, of one of the world's great engineering and business enterprises in a narrative of epic and inspirational proportions.

The Emergence of an Arab Global Business

Out of the Middle East

Humanity's most spectacular era yet is increasingly within reach.So why are we doing everything we can to hold it back?The bestselling author of The Rational Optimist delivers a daring vision of the future - one that is potentially dazzling, but only if we stop sleepwalking into self-inflicted decline.We're on the brink of a truly spectacular explosion of productivity and prosperity, argues Matt Ridley, thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence, material science and genomic knowledge that is unprecedented in its scope and implications. With characteristic wit and ferocity, he confronts the irrational pessimism that dominates public discourse and examines the bureaucratic bloat, regulatory overreach, ideological superstition and crony capitalism that stand in the way.Optimistic in conclusion but unsparing in its analysis, The Flourishing is a rousing call to achieve and innovate by refusing to settle for a merely adequate future when a magnificent one is within reach.

The Rational Pessimist

Building Sustainable Enterprises Across Generations

The Science and Practice of Family Enterprise

Everything you know about leadership is about to expire. The rulebook most leaders rely on was written for a slower world that no longer exists. Next Gen CEO is not a book about management theory. It is about the raw mechanics of leadership - the principles that remain when the noise of the modern world is stripped away. In sixty sharp, micro-learning chapters, Mike Soutar distils decades of experience as a founder, CEO and the formidable interviewer from BBC's The Apprentice. These are the benchmarks Mike used to judge Britain's most ambitious entrepreneurs and the hard-won truths he used to scale his own multi-million-pound businesses. Inside, you'll learn how to: ¿ Lose more arguments - and become stronger for it. ¿ Stop being everyone else's problem solver. ¿ Design teams that don'???????t need you in every room. ¿ Stay on fire - without burning out. No jargon. No waffle. Just battle-tested frameworks for a world where AI, distributed work and economic upheaval are reshaping the workplace in real time. Leadership is a behaviour, not a job title. The future will reward those who learn faster than the world is changing. Are you ready to be a leader others choose to follow?

60 Lessons for Leaders in an Uncertain World

Next Gen CEO

When the plan can’t keep up with changing conditions, strategic judgment must. Strategic leaders increasingly make consequential decisions in the gap between strategic intent and the plan of action. They need to stay oriented toward what they are trying to create while continually deciding what to hold, what to adapt, and what to let go of to meet rapidly changing conditions. The challenge is that pressure can begin shaping those decisions before you realize it. Over time, hundreds of reasonable choices can add up to something no one intended. In this book, strategist and executive coach Karin Blair reveals a hidden lever behind strategic judgment: the inner capacity of the leader making those calls. Through a framework of interconnected agilities, you’ll learn to <ul><li>build emotional agility to recognize when self-protection and reactivity are shaping your judgment,</li><li>develop cognitive agility to widen the perspectives and possibilities you can consider before deciding, and</li><li>strengthen navigational agility to stay oriented and committed as conditions change and results remain uncertain.</li></ul> With practical insights and real-world examples, Blair helps you recognize when pressure is narrowing your judgment and build the agilities that strengthen your capacity over time, so you can draw on it when the stakes are high. You can’t change the terrain. But you can expand your inner capacity to navigate it.

Make better high-stakes decisions in uncertainty by developing the 3 agilities (emotional, cognitive, and navigational) needed to lead when no clear answers exist. Today's leaders face a difficult challenge: They must make high-stakes decisions before they have enough information to know whether those choices will succeed. Organizations operate in a BANI world, one that is brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and increasingly difficult to predict. Yet many leaders continue to make strategic decisions using mental models built for a more stable era. This book reveals why leaders often narrow their options under pressure, mistake activity for impact, and seek certainty when ambiguity demands something different. Executive coach Karin Blair shows that the quality of strategic decisions depends less on what leaders know and more on what they can hold without reacting, oversimplifying, or forcing premature resolution. Through a powerful framework built around 3 interconnected agilities, readers learn how to <ul><li>build emotional agility to stay grounded under pressure,</li><li>develop cognitive agility to hold competing perspectives and challenge assumptions, and</li><li>strengthen navigational agility to sustain commitment when results remain uncertain.</li></ul> Filled with practical leadership insights and real-world examples, this book helps leaders expand their decision field, choose coherence over relief, and create strategies that compound into meaningful long-term impact.

3 Agilities for Strategic Decisions

Capacity Under Pressure

INDAM Palgrave Book Series

This edited volume examines how organisations build, sustain and renew strategic competitiveness amid technological change, sustainability pressures and evolving workforce expectations. Bringing together research on AI, responsible strategy, organisational behaviour and human resource management, the book shows how competitive advantage increasingly depends on the ability to combine technological, environmental and human capabilities.Across twelve chapters, contributors examine AI adoption and marketing, sustainability strategy and communication, circular business models, hybrid and gig work, employee well-being, inclusion, voice, governance and talent retention. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives and methodologies, the volume connects rigorous scholarship with practical implications for managers, policymakers, researchers and students. Its central message is that enduring competitiveness rests not only on performance, but on organisations’ capacity to transform responsibly, remain resilient and create value for multiple stakeholders.“An excellent and timely examination of strategic competitiveness in today’s rapidly evolving business environment. By connecting digital and AI transformation, sustainability, human-centred management, inclusion and responsible governance, the book demonstrates how organisations can remain competitive while responding responsibly to technological, environmental and workforce change. A valuable read for scholars of human resource management, organisational behaviour and strategic management.”
 — 
 Professor Sumit K. Kundu, Florida International UniversitySurender Munjal
 is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and International Business at Aston Business School. He is the Founding Secretary and President-Elect of INDAM and served as Convenor of the INDAM 2026 Conference.
 Niti Bhasin
 is Professor in the Department of Commerce at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is an Executive Board Member of INDAM and led the International Business Track at the INDAM 2026 Conference.
 Vijay Pereira
 is Professor and Associate Dean at ESCE International Business School, Paris. He is President of INDAM (2026–28) and led the Human Resource Management Track at the INDAM 2026 Conference.
 Radha Yadav
 is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi. She is a former Executive Board Member of INDAM and led the Organisational Behaviour Track at the INDAM 2026 Conference.

This edited volume examines how organisations build, sustain and renew strategic competitiveness amid technological change, sustainability pressures and evolving workforce expectations. Bringing together research on AI, responsible strategy, organisational behaviour and human resource management, the book shows how competitive advantage increasingly depends on the ability to combine technological, environmental and human capabilities.Across twelve chapters, contributors examine AI adoption and marketing, sustainability strategy and communication, circular business models, hybrid and gig work, employee well-being, inclusion, voice, governance and talent retention. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives and methodologies, the volume connects rigorous scholarship with practical implications for managers, policymakers, researchers and students. Its central message is that enduring competitiveness rests not only on performance, but on organisations’ capacity to transform responsibly, remain resilient and create value for multiple stakeholders.“An excellent and timely examination of strategic competitiveness in today’s rapidly evolving business environment. By connecting digital and AI transformation, sustainability, human-centred management, inclusion and responsible governance, the book demonstrates how organisations can remain competitive while responding responsibly to technological, environmental and workforce change. A valuable read for scholars of human resource management, organisational behaviour and strategic management.”
 — 
 Professor Sumit K. Kundu, Florida International University

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