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Let them go!

One bad employee can destroy company culture. A situation I see with clients all the time is tolerating bad attitudes and behaviour, and that includes from the leadership team!

By protecting these people (liabilities!) and trying not to upset them, you may be completely missing that tolerating this behaviour can be detrimental to the broader team.

Today I’m sharing the two main reasons this happens – and the three questions to help you let them go.

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The cracks of scale

In my recent blog, I described startups as a garage band and scaleups as a jazz band. The shift is the introduction of necessary processes and principles. It’s less of a free-for-all and more about developing useful guidelines, practices, and philosophies to enable your business to scale.

In this article I’ll be discussing four key actions you can take to implement change and prevent the cracks becoming a chasm.

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When leaders become disengaged.

Have you ever had a member of your leadership team become disengaged?

Difficult to manage?

Not collaborative?

Losing interest?

In this week’s article, I’m sharing a case study of a situation exactly like this, and what happened when we lifted the lid on this behaviour – and uncovered what was really going on. It wasn’t what you might think.

Keep reading to find out why this leader became disengaged – and how we resolved it.

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