Start to Scale Workbook: Secrets to Starting and Scaling Any Size Organization

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By Nikki Stevens

Katie Grant opens this book with a line that will stop a struggling new mother mid-scroll and make her feel, possibly for the first time since her baby arrived, like someone actually gets it. You just grew and birthed a human. So let’s lower the bar, shall we? That combination of warmth, humor, and complete absence of judgment is the entire register of the book, and it is exactly the right one.

Postpartum anxiety affects far more new mothers than the cultural conversation around new parenthood ever acknowledges, and the silence around it compounds the suffering. Women who expected to feel joy find themselves overwhelmed, afraid, and unable to recognize themselves, and then feel guilty for feeling that way on top of everything else. Grant wrote this book from inside that exact experience, and that origin is what gives it its particular authority. This is not a clinician explaining a condition from a careful distance. It is a mother who has been there, writing back to the women still in it.

The format is the argument. A short, bite-sized book full of practical information and genuine hope that fits between diaper changes is not a compromise. It is a recognition that the women who most need this book are the ones with the least margin to read a long one. Every design choice, from the length to the tone to the humor woven throughout, respects the reality of the reader’s life rather than asking her to rise to the book’s level.

What she covers is genuinely useful. What postpartum anxiety actually is and why it is not the mother’s fault. What partners and family members need to understand and precisely how to communicate that to them. How to find professional help and build a practical toolkit in the meantime. These are the three things a new mother with PPA most needs to know, and Grant delivers all three with the warmth of a friend and the clarity of someone who has done the work.

Dr. Felecia Sumner put it exactly right. The mothers who find this book are going to feel genuinely seen. That is no small thing.

About the Author

Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today. 

Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 260 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup. 

He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times," for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; and wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. His latest books Scaling Up Compensation and 12 Habits of Valuable Employees rocketed to the #1 HR books on Amazon upon release.

Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.