Three essential qualities of a strong pioneering team

Distance has just joined the start-up company for more than a year, the biggest feeling is: no matter how good individuals, must be integrated with the appropriate team to play the greatest value. If there is no in the same direction, no consensus, no synergy, no matter how many good individuals, will not achieve a strong team, there will be no big event opportunities.

Lately I've been thinking about what a strong entrepreneurial team needs most, whether it's at the company level, at the departmental level, or at the project level. The reality is often, the company is not lack of direction, there is no shortage of opportunities, it is just one and one can turn the vision into reality of the outstanding team. Combined with work experience, I think a strong entrepreneurial team must have the following three major qualities.

1, a strong leader

This is the best prerequisite for polishing an excellent team. The key is to understand the "strong" three words. I think "strong" need to synthesize the following elements: Brave, resolute, selfless, bear ... However, courage is the first, but also my heart a qualified leader the most valuable spiritual character. Any team will continue to face new goals, new challenges, especially in startups, few people can see the future, find a truly sustainable profit point. In the face of this huge uncertainty, other members, including leader itself, will inevitably wander, struggle and hesitate. So as leader must be brave enough, the key moment can stand up to break the deadlock, shout a voice: so do!

Some people might say that if you choose the wrong one, it's not a big deal. In accordance with the average life expectancy of 2-3 years of domestic private enterprises, 6% of the business of Internet start-ups, the majority of entrepreneurs start the moment, nothing more than to choose a dead law. That's a bit of a loss, but success is really accidental. In addition, a qualified leader also need selfless and play, to know, the team is responsible for the company's biggest responsibility.

2.35 core members on the basis of full consensus

At least for now, almost all successful entrepreneurial teams have 35 core members as absolute support. In recent years also gradually popular division of labor more clearly elaborated, CEO understand strategy, CTO understand technology, COO understand operation and so on. And Lei, Zhou, Liu ... Jobs, the proven bulls, have been explaining the importance of the core team on different occasions. Liu has always put the "team" in the first place, then the strategy, with the team. Lei in the early days of millet, the greatest effort to recruit seven core members. Zhou The theory of jobs: Most of the success lies in finding talented people. Not B-Class, C-class talent, but the real a-class talent. "Early on, many investors also habitually expressed as" investment project is to cast people, "then gradually became clear that" the investment project is the investment team. " That's the reason.

So, once you have the conditions to become leader and set up a team, the first task is "team", put all the energy to put into the core talent. These talents should not only complement each other, but also reach a full consensus on their wishes. If the timing is not good, and the team in front of you is okay, then do it while you're looking. But the premise is the fastest speed to complete the "Exchange transfusion", do not in the core team quality self-deception. Again, I've talked to a number of private entrepreneurs about time management, and they often spend an astonishing 80% of their time choosing people. Do you really pay attention to talent?

3, the positive internal atmosphere, especially the discussion of the atmosphere of the problem

How to verify the ability of an entrepreneurial team? The best way is to solve the problem. This involves all aspects, for internet companies, a good product will face countless problems. It includes the establishment of business model, the carding of functional logic and the breakthrough of visual design ... Wait a minute. Each link requires a great deal of energy and effort, especially when your team has a lot of cattle in various fields, most of these people are full of personality, it is even more difficult to get together. However, want to do a good product, desperation. From the experience I've been involved in, a product can be knocked down and there may be 5,000 of ideas that look good individually, and there may be no more than 5 core ideas to be selected. PK unavoidable, how to do? This requires leader to take the lead to establish a positive discussion attitude, even if it is to negate others ' suggestions and ideas, but also must respect other people's thinking, at the same time think good have no better suggestions, otherwise do not easily denied.

In the concrete operation, must encourage "to matter to the person", some more similar discussion attitude: Will this be better? If you remove a function, will it affect the whole? Without B, what would the user experience be? In short, take the lead in fostering a positive and constructive internal atmosphere, especially in the discussion of issues. When talking about the biggest harvest of studying in Harvard, Wang Shi also mentioned that "the problem of why must be in the way of how, the methodology should be very clear." Now many things in China debate the opposite, may not emphasize a thing, this can not be discussed. We are now more about ideology, wrong about problems, more emphasis on methodology in the west. Of course, the best way is to find people who dare to ask questions and are better at solving problems. I think one day, the entrepreneur will find that the team's initial discussion atmosphere, will be the corporate culture of the gene, affecting the enterprise's life.

Entrepreneurship is really a difficult thing, light team formation is enough to make a lot of people headache, let alone the probability of success. Therefore, to advise those who hold the luck mentality of the entrepreneur or save the province.