Team Chaos = Leadership School — Managing People Like a Founder

If you’ve ever led a college event, you know this: ideas are easy, people are hard.

The biggest challenge isn’t planning — it’s managing a team of friends, volunteers, and classmates, all with different levels of motivation (and attendance). You remind someone about deadlines, handle miscommunication, and somehow keep the energy alive.

Welcome to leadership training — startup edition.

You learn to delegate, communicate, and sometimes just calmly fix things when they fall apart. When a teammate disappears right before the event, or the person in charge of publicity forgets the poster deadline, you’re forced to adapt — not complain.

And that’s exactly what founders do. Startups thrive on uncertainty, and leaders hold teams together when things go off-script.

You also learn empathy. You realize people work differently, and leadership isn’t about control — it’s about direction.