No Room for Dead Weight in Entrepreneur In Action Team
I’ve had the honor for the last two years of being on the Board of Advisor’s for University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Management Entrepreneur In Action course that is operated out of the Gary S. Holmes Center of Entrepreneurship. I’ve been continually impressed with the quality of the students and the incredibly real-life learning that happens through this hands-on experience.
At our last Board of Advisor’s meeting, when Rachel Nearhood, the CEO of Aozora Organics, reported on their teams’ learnings, she said, “We’ve learned that everyone needs to be a leader. There is no room for dead weight.”
I was thrilled! I was thrilled that they were learning this lesson while in college because it’s a lesson that will fuel their success in the rest of the career. We all need to be leaders, in any and every situation. We can not be dead weight, and we can’t have dead weight on our teams, if we’re to come out of this economic storm stronger then every.
Where is there dead weight in your company? On your leadership team? Sales team?
You may find some helpful tips in my most recent booklet: Yes You Can: 67 Tips to Raise Sales Results in a Recession Yes You Can: 67 Tips to Raise Your Sales Results in a Recession.