Dividing up the spoils

At last week’s CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 lecture, attendees heard Lance Laking, an experienced entrepreneur and MaRS advisor, speak about the key factors in building teams in companies – coupling the disparate values of peer-recognition motivated, technically focused staff with the “coin operated” attitude of a sales team.

Although this is somewhat of a chicken and egg question, which do you think is the most important: the technical folks who design and develop the product, or the sales people who convince customers to buy it? How should you, the company CEO, divide up the rewards?

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• Class Summary: Human Capital: Building high performance teams for your start-up’s success
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