No free rides
Everything takes longer than you’d like.
To land new clients, build products, hire the team, change the structure, reset the culture, develop the strategy. False starts, blind…
They’re already on the team. They have talents and knowledge and contacts and history that makes their contribution valuable. But valuable enough? Enough to outweigh their attitude, the complexity they add, the drag on proceedings, the obduracy and delays, the unwillingness of colleagues to engage? The lack of fun?
Maybe.
If they can be turned. If the negative energy can be redirected. If they actively sign up to the cause rather than sit on the sidelines and snipe. If they become easier to deal with, helping push forward rather than always pulling back. If they bring joy into the game.
Only if they’re willing to change. Only if they change today.
What’s your role in the process? Clarity, consistency, and no free rides.
It starts with the difficult conversation, and carries on, every day, until there’s no more doubt either way.
Skippy strategy: Remove doubt – one way or the other.
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