Founder First: Protect your time, sharpen your focus, and finish the work that moves your business

by Dave Christie, Gillian Schofield (Editor)

You are working hard, your diary is full, and yet the business still feels like it should be further forward.

Founder First is a practical business book for founders and owner-led businesses who are carrying too too many priorities, ideas, meetings, opportunities and unfinished projects competing for their time.

Dave Christie challenges the assumption that the answer is to work harder or add more. Instead, Founder First shows you how to take Two Steps Back, protect your time, sharpen your focus and finish the work that actually moves the business forward.

Through practical lessons drawn from real business experience, you will learn to recognise the difference between activity and progress, filter the noise around you, make clearer decisions and build habits that hold under pressure.

You probably do not need more hours.

You need to become much more deliberate about what deserves them.

Focus. Finish. Move on.

188 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2026