What makes a successful management team?

摘要

Teresa Graham offers some practical advice. Management teams can make or break a business and the problem is particularly acute in small and medium-sized owner-managed businesses. Some difficulties arise because a high proportion of SMEs are launched, owned and managed by one individual who shapes the business vision and retains almost despotic control over all operational and financial issues. Even if other people assume managerial roles, the end result is usually a one-person power show. Unfortunately, teamwork is a vital part of most businesses - even nvuseries or garden centres which are owned and managed by one or two people. It's impossible to run a business on your own: one person can't be expert in horticulture, marketing, merchandising, forecasting, ordering, customer relations, finance, supplier relations, staff motivation ...