I get to work with a lot of businesses. Some of them are successful. Very successful.<\/p>\n
And all of the successful businesses have one thing in common – a successful management team with diverse talents. Between them they are able to produce a great product or service, market and sell it brilliantly and have in place first class financial management, planning, forecasting and controls.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of them were founded by a team as well. It seems to be a very difficult transition for most founding solo entrepreneurs to make from being the lone ‘big cheese’ to being part of a management team. Generally they either sell their business to a management team – who are often able to grow it significantly – or they retain complete control of a pretty small empire.<\/p>\n
If good management teamwork is a pre-requisite for successful high growth then why are so many entrepreneur development programmes designed to work with individuals and to promote the cult of individualism rather than good management teamwork.<\/p>\n
Good business plans are always written by teams. The best entrepreneurs always build the team first. Then they help the team to develop the plan.<\/p>\n
Are any of you working on enterprise development programmes that put this reality smack bang in the middle of things?<\/p>\n