Leading Entrepreneurs

Rich Gorman: Leading a New Generation of Entrepreneurs

Leadership is an important quality in the business world. If you wish to succeed at being an entrepreneur you must understand how to manage your business—a task that includes knowing how to manage the staff that you will, hopefully, eventually hire. For many people, the idea of leadership conjures images of a lone professional taking charge of a project, but the truth is that this idea is a bit outdated. In today’s world, businesses are so fast-paced that even smaller endeavors need to build a staff that can handle responsibility. Over the course of his career, Rich Gorman has learned that being an effective leader is not about micromanaging his team, but rather it is about trusting his team to complete their tasks—letting him orchestrate the company without having to literally do it all himself.

For this to work, though, Rich Gorman has realized that you must pick the right team. Having the right people in the right places may seem to be a bit of a business cliché, but it really is crucial to success. When building up a staff, Rich Gorman makes it a point to look for employees that are hard-working, intelligent, and committed to their careers.

These characteristics may seem like they came right off of your intern’s résumé, or your own for that matter, but finding people with this combination of qualities that are also self-motivated and reliable can pose a bit of a challenge—especially for an entrepreneur that may not be able to offer the competitive benefits packages that another company can. But Rich Gorman has made it a point to treat his employees well, no matter how large or small the project, so that he can attract the top talent in the field. Part of this implies great benefits packages, yes, but the rest lies in effective leadership.

Employees who are given responsibility, allowed to schedule their own time, and, basically, maintain a degree of autonomy are the ones that will take their jobs seriously because they will be able to see, firsthand, how their investment into the company makes a difference. Rich Gorman’s management style has worked for years and, as his business ventures continue to grow, it will allow him to maintain “control” over his company while delegating crucial tasks to a team that he trusts.