The Transformation Principles: How to Create Enduring Change -- Hemant Taneja, Hardcover
USA Today Bestseller Publisher's Weekly Bestseller Featured in Bloomberg's Top Books of 2025 Whether you're investing, leading a company, or building a career, this guide from the CEO of global investment and transformation company General Catalyst offers powerful principles essential to long-term success. In a world rapidly being reshaped by technological revolutions and geopolitical realignments, businesses can no longer afford to operate with outdated frameworks. The companies that will thrive in an economic system under both strain and skepticism will be those that reimagine their role in society while harnessing emerging technologies. This new reality needs a new set of guidelines--transformation principles--to guide decision-making for investors, company builders, and anyone navigating a career as they venture beyond. General Catalyst CEO and eight-time Forbes Midas List recipient Hemant Taneja has developed these principles throughout his life, and they have helped General Catalyst fund, found, and nurture some of the most exciting companies of the past two decades, such as Airbnb, Stripe, Livongo, Anduril, Kayak, Snap, Gusto, and Canva, while having a powerful positive and enduring impact on society. In The Transformation Principles, Taneja explains in detail the nine principles behind his company's outsize success in investing and industry transformation. These principles will help readers:
- Understand the critical importance of a company's soul
- Navigate through the inevitable twists and turns when creating a new future
- See through trends that don't matter and focus on what truly matters for enduring success
- Help build companies that solve society's hardest problems, making capitalism a force for good
- Confidently lead with curiosity and generosity for extraordinary success
Author: Hemant Taneja
Publisher: Matt Holt Books
Published: 9/23/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95 lbs
Size: 9.27" H x 6.33" L x 0.86" W
ISBN: 9781637747353
