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2 Things You Need in Your Team

Entrepreneurs need very different qualities for their teams than the typical things we think of that work for corporate or big business teams. With corporate teams, chances are you get whoever HR hired, and much time is spent with “team building,” trying to get the team to work well together and be supportive of each other. As an entrepreneur, you need that from the get-go.

Don’t Take the Monkeys

Entrepreneurs often end up with a desk full of challenges and problems brought to them by their team members. Admiring, but not taking, team members’ monkeys is a great way to think of this situation and can actually stop the problems from ending up on your desk.

3 Ways to Get Work Off Your Desk

Entrepreneurs often have trouble letting go and end up being the bottlenecks in their own businesses, with most of the work ending up on their desks. Learning to let go can bring powerful benefits, including increased profits and more time to do what you started your business for in the first place.

Entrepreneurial Bottlenecks

When entrepreneurs get stuck and feel like everything ends up on their desks, they often don’t recognize it as a problem with how they’ve built (or managed) their teams. How to know if you’re the bottleneck in your company – and how you got there – are the subjects of this short video.