Your team is one of your most important parts of your business, but as written before, my biggest mistake was going too fast with my ideas because it eroded trust with my team. And at the Olympics, this was a dream team – highly talented people all picked for their individual strengths. But when you hire talented people just because they are talented, suddenly the reality is glaring: as a whole, the team was made up of 10 first-time Olympians and six players who had never played in a major international competition.
Key Takeaways:
- Think carefully about your hiring decisions. While it can be tempting to pick the best of the best, in the long run, you want a team that can work together, bringing different things to the table.
- On your team, you may have people who need all the information before they can make a decision. You might have engineers, mathematical people, or artists. They’ll all see the world in a different way.
- Part of building trust in your team is being able to present ideas without a mindset of “this is already going to happen.” Some ideas need reworking or collaborative effort to really reach their full potential.
“Think carefully about your hiring decisions. While it can be tempting to pick the best of the best, in the long run, you want a team that can work together, bringing different things to the table.”
http://www.ceo.com/strategy/how-to-keep-your-momentum-without-losing-your-team/
