Unstoppable Business Team: Strategy for Developing a Competent Entrepreneur

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AVAlexander VolchekAn entrepreneur's strategy and decisionsTeams, hiring, and motivationThe competent entrepreneurF/Friend / friendsLove, help, and rescuing others

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Building a strong management team: the art of self-acceptance and effective leadership
• 02:15Aspects of team building: my experience at GeekBrains and Skillbox
• 04:20Honesty and openness in communication: keys to team trust and motivation, and the problem of false expectations
• 07:54Personal scale and attracting strong people: how a leader's charisma influences team building
• 08:54Hiring people to fit an organizational structure
• 11:39Creating an environment for open communication: strategies to improve mutual understanding and resolve conflicts
• 15:14Development and change: how adapting to new conditions helps a team grow
• 16:42Building a team: an individual approach and the importance of honest management
• 19:18Attitudes toward other people: broadening your social circle for effective management
• 21:05Welcome to the comments!

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• 01:16

  Interestingly, in this case the responsibility isn't yours. It rests on the team, because the team may simply not want to change, not want to do it.

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• 05:38

  Then show what opportunities the person has and why it's great to be with me.

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• 07:27

  Obviously, someone won't open up 100% in an interview. They won't tell you, for example, about problems with their wife, or that their wife or husband actually decides whether they'll stay and work or not.

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• 08:07

  It means thinking and presenting yourself on an incredibly broad, global scale.

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• 09:55

  Someone came who, according to the chart, should report to a particular manager, but will actually report to you, the person running and driving the business, watching over it and being with it every day.

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• 10:38

  You say, for example, “My performance marketing will grow tenfold, so I need this many people in marketing, sales, everywhere.”

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• 11:33

  And often we don't know the real reason they succeeded, who actually produced that big result.

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• 14:23

  A good example is people who worked with me through more than two, more than three, even more than four companies.

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• 14:34

  Some worked with me at Megaplan when I was CEO, at Business Molodost when I was an owner and managed it for a substantial period, at Agro24 when we built the business with Andrey Rogachev, at A2life when we built an education company, and at…

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• 20:38

  So the most important thing for having a great management team is to be a great, real, honest, sincere, authentic person with values.

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