The phrase "a precondition for success" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the necessary requirements or factors that must be in place for achieving success in a particular endeavor.
Example: "Effective communication is often seen as a precondition for success in team projects."
Alternatives: "a prerequisite for success" or "an essential factor for success".
That is a precondition for success but by no means a guarantee.
At the start of Reagan's second term, Kingon advised the White House that the victory had allowed him to pursue policies that would advance only with bipartisan support — a precondition for success, given that Democrats controlled the House.
A precondition for success of intensified care is free access to, and due start of preconception and prenatal care.
17 22 31 36 40 44 Adaption and translation to local conditions are a precondition for success.
The reform of the welfare state is also a precondition for the success of future generations.
"The partnership is not in a position to build the broadest possible coalition, which is a precondition for its success," Mr. Rome said.
Yet it isn't a derogation of the black vernacular -- a marvelously rich and inventive tongue -- to point out that there's a language of the marketplace, too, and learning to speak that language has generally been a precondition for economic success, whoever you are.
A pro-environmental attitude and the intrinsic motivation to act according to environmental/sustainability beliefs has been a precondition for a success in the past [9].
A precondition for the success of performance based financing is that authorities must respect the autonomous management of health facilities competing for public subsidies.
However, the existing management at the community level through AMOMAR was a precondition for the success of the institutionalization process, especially in comparison with the other, less organized communities in the park.
McClellan (1975) identified the belief among the Tutchone and Kaska people of southern Yukon that appropriate respect for the animals is a precondition for continued success in the hunt.
