Entrepreneurs: Building Your Team
by Miki SaxonStartup founders to Fortune 50 bosses constantly complain about the time-eating effort it takes to build a great team.
It’s as if they want the fun of fishing without all the bother of poles, bait and hanging out where the fish are.
When a founder is ready to build a team, there is one critical action that is too often ignored—consciously create the culture first.
The order is crucial because a good cultural match is far more important than knowing the programming language du jour or other “hot” skills. (This is true in any size company.)
The majority of the my 3400+ posts deal on one way or another with the importance of cultural fit, as do thousands of articles such as this recent one from Entrepreneur.com.
But it is the lessons from entrepreneurs like Moz’s Rand Fishkin that sink in best.
