According to noted hotelier Chip Conley, "Culture is what happens when the boss leaves." - Salim Ismail

Today, if you're not disrupting yourself, someone else is; your fate is to be either the disrupter or the disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Kahlil Gibran: "Work is love made visible. The goal is not to live forever; the goal is to create something that will."

So, of the three major risk areas, execution risk remains the only real issue in building a company. How will the enterprise organize itself to maximize performance from its founders and management team? How will it leverage technology and information to create a unique and sustainable advantage and business model? Answering these questions correctly is the key to building a successful Exponential Organization. For this reason, we need to look more closely at each of the steps in building a powerful and effective team.