Saturday, March 21, 2009

7. The Big Idea

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness,” says New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert Dr. John C. Maxwell in this engaging primer on how to build and equip a team. Equipping 101 offers valuable insight and practical tools in a pocket-sized format that delivers what you need to know on such topics as the power of teamwork,

why equipping is essential to a leader’s success, the qualities to look for in potential leaders, ten steps for investing in others, how to become an “enlarger” of people, and investing in your team for the future. Teams involve more people, thus affording more resources, ideas, and energy than would an individual.

Teams maximize a leader’s potential and minimize his or her weaknesses. Strengths and weaknesses are more exposed in individuals. Teams provide multiple perspectives on how to meet a need or reach a goal, thus devising several alternatives for each situation. The discussions revolve around the philosophies that could make or unmake the future of small businesses.

Teams share the credit for victories and the blame for losses. This fosters genuine humility and authentic community. Teams keep leaders accountable for the goal. Majority of them simply fail no matter how huge effort is put into the undertaking. Why is this so? Michael Gerber reveals the answers in this book. The discussions revolve around the philosophies that could make or unmake the future of small businesses. These philosophies are: entrepreneurial myth (e-myth), the turn-key revolution and the business development process.

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