Around the third report a team lead’s job changes. We treated it as a coaching problem, not a ceiling, and our player-coaches learned to run teams of four or five.
Young start-ups often have a large number of tasks and at the same time very few hands and minds to handle them. For example, smaller startups with fewer than 15 employees often have no dedicated support functions such as back office staff to take care of office organization, bookings, invoices, etc. This is often the…