161 - Don't Make Your Team Lose
Don't make your team lose
This may seem like the most obvious entrepreneurial advice ever given. However it is one of the most consistent conversations I have with my clients.
As entrepreneurs we aren't afraid of losing, we like to set a target far away and take our best shot. We don't mind coming from behind and missing every once in a while.
Often deadlines lose importance to us on our way to the destination. Changing the direction we are going or the time we allotted to get there doesn't bother us that much.
The opposite is true for our teams.
If you make your team lose, they will quit. The better the team member, the more losing will affect them.
Unfortunately this was one of the most difficult lessons I've learned as an entrepreneur, and it took me decades.
It doesn't have to take you that long.
