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Antonio Garrido Caballero

Anatomy of the First CEO

Antonio Garrido Caballero

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English
Antonio Garrido Caballero
08 May 2026
Business strategy; Management: leadership & motivation; Organisational theory & behaviour
Every company you admire will be gone in fifty years.

One organization has survived for two thousand years.

No army could destroy it. No scandal could erase it. No revolution could replace it. The Catholic Church is not just the oldest institution on earth - it is the only one that has ever solved the problem every CEO is secretly terrified of: how do you build something that outlives you?

Anatomy of the First CEO is not a book about faith. It is a forensic examination of the most sophisticated leadership architecture ever constructed - and what modern executives can steal from it before their own organizations collapse under the weight of short-term thinking.

The architect was a carpenter from Nazareth. Before he left, he did something no founder in history has done as deliberately or as completely: he designed the entire structure - the hierarchy, the mission, the doctrine, the succession - so that the organization would not just survive his absence, but expand because of it. He handed that architecture to a fisherman. Two thousand years and 1.4 billion members later, it is still standing.

Antonio Garrido Caballero spent two decades inside boardrooms watching brilliant leaders build brilliant companies that disappeared the moment they left. The pattern was always the same. And the solution was written two millennia ago.

This is the book about vision, structure, power, and succession that business schools were never brave enough to teach.

What would you build if you knew it had to last forever?
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Imprint:   Antonio Garrido Caballero
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   435g
ISBN:   9781996864128
ISBN 10:   1996864122
Pages:   376
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Antonio Garrido Caballero is an organizational consultant, framework architect, and the founder of Sylvatica, a leadership diagnostic practice serving CEOs and senior executives. Based in Whitby, Ontario, he has spent two decades studying how institutions are built to last - and why most aren't. ""Anatomy of the First CEO"" distills those insights through the lens of the most enduring organization in human history. He is the author of more than seventeen published works spanning leadership, organizational strategy, and literary fiction.

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