HOW TO SPEND IT — PART 17
A Special Case: Team Leads
Make Middle Management Work Effectively in Startups
10 min readDec 21, 2023
This article will answer the following questions:
- When do we need team leads?
- Who do we need?
- How to lead leaders?
- How much must we spend?
- The How-to-Spend-It Assessment
When Do We Need Team Leads?
Is your startup growing? Perhaps at a rapid pace? One day you’ll probably wake up and realize that you can’t keep the team together and oversee every activity yourself. The complexity has grown beyond what you can oversee alone, and deeper expertise is required in many positions.
This is a clear sign that you’ve missed the right time to put team leads in charge.
Growing startups need structure. Fast-growing startups even more so.
Team leaders are the first level of middle management to be installed. It is not yet a departmental structure, but a way to keep…
