Up or out
There are suppliers, there are customers, and there are partners.
Suppliers see you as a customer. Customers see you as a supplier. Whilst success in each…
People grow.
It’s tempting, convenient, expedient and a little bit take-‘em-for-granted lazy to imagine that the people on your team are still in the right jobs and are happy to do them. They may have started out as a junior X or a senior Y, maybe they’re now ready for senior X or to slide over to Z.
It doesn’t matter whether that change would be good for you, their primary agenda will always be to do what’s right for them.
If you can’t offer the growth, they’ll find it somewhere else. Which, now you mention it, could be good for you … or not.
The point is to pay attention to the work they’re doing and to whether they have the desire and the chops to do something more useful. Then it’s an easy choice: stick or twist, up or out.
Skippy strategy: People grow. Which could be good for both of you.
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Teams
When you have a team, and one person isn’t the kind that fits, move them out.
That could mean putting them on another team, to a…