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The Magic Ingredient To Building The Highest Performing Team For Your Business

Kele Mogotsi
The Startup
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12 min readJul 27, 2022
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How can you build a high-performing team? For most companies, nurturing a top-performing team is a near-impossible task. When it does happen, it feels like a fluke, making it hard to replicate.

Sadly, many leaders and business owners don’t know how to consistently cultivate high performance. They believe that a high-performing team is a result of high-performing individuals, so they do everything they can to recruit top players.

Without acknowledging the real causes of consistently-produced, unequaled team performance, most leaders are just throwing the kitchen sink at a problem, hoping for a miracle.

Truth is, it’s a harsh reality to face that performance is a systemic issue that starts at the top. It’s not an individual one, even if you are tempted to blame it on the *weak person* on the team.

That’s a hard pill to swallow for a leader.

It’s understandable, convenient and much easier to abscond yourself of your leadership responsibilities. But the sooner you can acknowledge the duty is on you, the sooner your team will be on its way to unimaginable success.

Any team is capable of enviable excellence.

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Kele Mogotsi
Kele Mogotsi

Written by Kele Mogotsi

An introverted attention-seeker and chronic continent-hopper. Rhymes with jelly.

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