How to Kill Your Company

About the Book

“How to Kill Your Company is a short and wonderful romp of a book. Ken Kirsh provides us with fastest way I’ve ever seen to help every leader become more self-aware, and in turn, build companies that thrive rather than fail.”

—Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of the New York Times bestsellers Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule

“Ken Kirsh’s book, How to Kill Your Company, is an intellectual shot in the brain. If you buy it, read it, study it, and put it into action, it will prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot and in the wallet.”

—Jeffrey Gitomer, author of Little Red Book of Selling

“Never have I seen so many good, actionable thoughts in so few pages.”

—Peter Ricchiuti, Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

“For small businesses or big, Kirsh delivers 50 punchy and powerful don’t do’s that apply to CEOs, clerks and every employee in between.”

—Chris Altizer, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Pfizer

Unapologetic and in your face, How to Kill Your Company exposes 50 of the most common and detrimental behaviors that people, including you, unwittingly exhibit on a daily basis—and they’re killing your company.

About the Author

Ken Kirsh grew up in Philadelphia. Cut him and he bleeds music and cheesesteaks. After a number of years working for the man, he specialized in communications as a consultant and award-winning corporate event producer. This outside perspective allowed him to observe something impossible to see from the inside: that people behave alike in ways that repeatedly hurt themselves and their companies, and that these behaviors apply to all industries and roles, up one side of the corporate ladder and down the other. His new book, How To Kill Your Company, reveals 50 ways you could be damaging your organization and your career, then gives you immediate means to make productive change. "I'm so fascinated by how rampant these counter-productive behaviors are, that I'm compelled to stick our collective faces in it. Someone has to tell you the truth and it may as well be me."