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RECRUITING YOUR INSIDE TEAM

Selecting the People Who Work Best with You

Builders who try to build alone build little. Your prodigious talents are best unleashed when you combine yours with those of other individuals. Their perspective, skill, and commitment can create a force multiplier for your own distinctive personality characteristics.

If you’re a builder, you need a crew—whether they’re called employees, teammates, associates, or colleagues. You depend on the talent and dedication of other individuals, from the early days before launch to later stages of scaling a successful business. And as we suggested in our description of the team growth dynamic (i.e., galvanizing individual talent for collaborative impact; see chapter 2), you will ...

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