One Head Leads Best

I was at Balmoral Nippers on Sunday. It’s a wonderfully well-run program, and the largest of its kind in the country with over 700 kids.

“How”, I asked the lead organiser, “did you manage to achieve so much with such a small crew of volunteers?”

“The main lesson”, he replied, “is that one is better than two or three. I used to think that appointing two or three volunteers to run a group was better than one, but that just meant that no one was accountable.”

A team with two leaders is like a beast with two heads.

And a beast with two heads spends more time working out in which direction it should run, than it does running.

This is why a team with one head will always outperform a team with two heads – no matter how capable those two heads are.