--- title: "Team Building Lessons from the British Military" description: "Four team sizes, each suited to a stage of building a business." canonical: https://tomsharman.com/bookshelf/entrepreneur-revolution/team-building-lessons-from-the-british-military/ updated: 2026-11-03 --- # 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. Framework 10 of 13 from [Entrepreneur Revolution](https://tomsharman.com/bookshelf/entrepreneur-revolution/index.md) by Daniel Priestley. Category: Sales and negotiation. ## The steps 1. **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. 2. **Fire Team.** Four people (leader, sales, operations, admin) do something fast and high impact, such as a launch, and look for product-market fit. 3. **Section.** About eight people, led by one market facing senior and one task focused senior, prepare the go-to-market approach. 4. **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. ## Where it comes from From chapter: CHAPTER 6: YOUR CORE TEAM, pp. 131–156 ## The animation 24 seconds, 4:5, no sound. - MP4: https://tomsharman-downloads-006143767029.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/downloads/bookshelf/entrepreneur-revolution/team-building-lessons-from-the-british-military.mp4 - MP4, dark: https://tomsharman-downloads-006143767029.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/downloads/bookshelf/entrepreneur-revolution/team-building-lessons-from-the-british-military-dark.mp4 - Still: https://tomsharman-downloads-006143767029.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/downloads/bookshelf/entrepreneur-revolution/team-building-lessons-from-the-british-military.png - Still, dark: https://tomsharman-downloads-006143767029.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/downloads/bookshelf/entrepreneur-revolution/team-building-lessons-from-the-british-military-dark.png