The skills that matter

Since we’ve been going through a massive growth spurt at rentoid – I’ve been thinking about the skills which matter. The skills which will take us from start up – to business. That stuff that happens after we’ve proved our concept and people are getting involved in what we do. And here’s my conculsions:

1. Project management. We must get the stuff done we’ve been talking about with our customers quickly. They haven’t got time to wait for us to get our act together. We must deliver our promises, or lose them forever.

2. Leadership. Keep the team inspired and motivated, while maintaining the culture we believe in and have already created. Just because we are starting to achieve our goals doesn’t mean we need to invent systems, create paperwork and lose trust for each other. This is where we prove there is another way to do things in business & life.

3. Maintain Momentum. Go ‘back to back’ in sporting parlance. The ability to maintain public interest and is difficult after unpaid national TV coverage. We’ve got to keep the tap running, keep communicating and getting coverage. This is where communication frequency becomes way more important than communication depth.

Another great way to keep ’em talking about rentoid?

We make sure we deliver on all the stuff we said we’d do – refer point 1.

2 thoughts on “The skills that matter

  1. I especially agree with point 1: you can only promise “upcoming” features for so long before people start to believe that you’re trying to pull the wool over their eyes and take off for a competitor. Once you promise, you must deliver, or at least show progress.

  2. I agree about the importance of maintaing the culture that has made your company successful and not changing the culture just because you have grown. I have been working on a website (www.leadingwithKindness.com) where we look at 5 companies that are successful and good place to work at. All 5 of the companies try to maintain their original culture because they realize that part of their success comes from the culture, even if maintaing the culture cost more money they believe it pays off in the long run.

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