Building your dream team

摘要

In my October 2006 column, I opined that the entrepreneur who starts a shop and grows it to, say, 2 million dollars to 3 million dollars in revenue is not likely to be the same person who leads that shop to 5 million dollars or more. To get to that level, entrepreneurs need management skills that are wholly different than the talents they typically possess. That column, "The 5 million dollars man," apparently resonated with a lot of owners who were impressed with my monthly contribution to their water cooler conversations but were underwhelmed by the specifics of my insights. Readers' e-mail was along the lines of, "Thanks, genius. You convinced me that I need to hire more management talent than I have onboard. So how, exactly, do I find my '5 million dollars dollar man'?"