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Shift Intelligence: End Founder Dependence and Build a Business That Stands on Its Own
What if your business didn’t just survive without you—but performed better because of it?
The most expensive problem in business isn’t competition, markets, or downturns.
It’s founder dependence—the hidden force that drains your time, limits your team, suppresses valuation, and ties the company’s future to one person.
When everything still runs through you, growth slows.
Leadership stalls.
And the business you built for freedom becomes the place you feel most trapped.
Shift Intelligence™ is the roadmap out.
Drawing from their journey of rebuilding a collapsing aerospace manufacturing company into a self-managing, team-led enterprise—and ultimately achieving an eight-figure exit—Ivan and Mariana Polic reveal a path founders rarely take but desperately need.
You’ll learn how
Redesign your role so you lead as the architect, not the bottleneckInstall systems that create speed, clarity, and dependable executionTurn team friction into alignment, ownership, and upward momentumBuild a culture that strengthens the company instead of relying on youProtect valuation by reducing key-person risk long before you scale, sell, or succeedThis is not theory.
It’s the framework that moved Ivan from 80-hour weeks to just 2, and produced a company strong enough to run—and sell—without the founders in the room.
If you’ve ever thought, “They can’t run it without me,” this book will show you how they can—and how to design a business that grows beyond you with confidence and integrity.
Start your shift today.
Every month you wait keeps you tied to a company that could already stand on its own.
The most expensive problem in business isn’t competition, markets, or downturns.
It’s founder dependence—the hidden force that drains your time, limits your team, suppresses valuation, and ties the company’s future to one person.
When everything still runs through you, growth slows.
Leadership stalls.
And the business you built for freedom becomes the place you feel most trapped.
Shift Intelligence™ is the roadmap out.
Drawing from their journey of rebuilding a collapsing aerospace manufacturing company into a self-managing, team-led enterprise—and ultimately achieving an eight-figure exit—Ivan and Mariana Polic reveal a path founders rarely take but desperately need.
You’ll learn how
Redesign your role so you lead as the architect, not the bottleneckInstall systems that create speed, clarity, and dependable executionTurn team friction into alignment, ownership, and upward momentumBuild a culture that strengthens the company instead of relying on youProtect valuation by reducing key-person risk long before you scale, sell, or succeedThis is not theory.
It’s the framework that moved Ivan from 80-hour weeks to just 2, and produced a company strong enough to run—and sell—without the founders in the room.
If you’ve ever thought, “They can’t run it without me,” this book will show you how they can—and how to design a business that grows beyond you with confidence and integrity.
Start your shift today.
Every month you wait keeps you tied to a company that could already stand on its own.
157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2025
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December 13, 2025
Ivan and Mariana know their stuff
I’ve had the great fortune of being able to work with Ivan and Mariana, examine their work, intellectual properties, see lots of their client transformations, and finally, see the joy of them putting all of their hard work into this book.
They’ve accomplished something very few entrepreneurs have an opportunity to do: experience an eight figure exit.
And they have continued to grow their capabilities and skills by working with many clients to help them experience what they did: Seven and eight figure exits, finally achieving freedom from the day-to-day grind and build businesses that aren’t dependent on the themselves.
If you’re a business owner or entrepreneur seeking freedom, read this book. And if you’re serious about making it happen for yourself quickly, schedule a conversation with Ivan and Mariana and work with them.
They are great people who care, roll up their sleeves and do the hard work.
I’ve had the great fortune of being able to work with Ivan and Mariana, examine their work, intellectual properties, see lots of their client transformations, and finally, see the joy of them putting all of their hard work into this book.
They’ve accomplished something very few entrepreneurs have an opportunity to do: experience an eight figure exit.
And they have continued to grow their capabilities and skills by working with many clients to help them experience what they did: Seven and eight figure exits, finally achieving freedom from the day-to-day grind and build businesses that aren’t dependent on the themselves.
If you’re a business owner or entrepreneur seeking freedom, read this book. And if you’re serious about making it happen for yourself quickly, schedule a conversation with Ivan and Mariana and work with them.
They are great people who care, roll up their sleeves and do the hard work.
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