System Instead of Team: Rethinking How Businesses...

System Instead of Team: Rethinking How Businesses Are Built Most founders believe they are building a team. In practice, they are building a system, simply not in an explicit form. This system is distributed across people, decisions, and shared context. It exists in habits, implicit rules, and accumulated experience. As long as the original participants remain involved and the context is preserved, such a system appears stable. However, this stability is conditional and does not survive change.