Team Building Lessons from the British Military

Four team sizes, each suited to a stage of building a business.

Daniel Priestley's framework, from Entrepreneur Revolution, pp. 131 to 156.

Scout Team
Two people, one on sales and marketing and one on operations, explore a new idea and build and test a minimum viable product.
Fire Team
Four people (leader, sales, operations, admin) do something fast and high impact, such as a launch, and look for product-market fit.
Section
About eight people, led by one market facing senior and one task focused senior, prepare the go-to-market approach.
Platoon
A team of teams of 30-50 people, led by a leadership team, executes the go-to-market strategy and becomes dominant in its market.

From chapter: CHAPTER 6: YOUR CORE TEAM, pp. 131–156

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