Community Post: One Bad Apple
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Small business owners tend to underestimate the impact of one bad apple on their team and their business. I don’t think it is purposeful denial. It just goes against the math. How can such a small percent of the team makes such a huge dent in morale? Productivity? Excellence?
If you are a small business owner, you are busy fighting fires and pursuing your passion. You just assume everyone else on the team is too.
You may also assume that everyone is like you and just knows to do what needs to be done. This is probably not true because you are the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs tend to do what needs to be done. People who work for entrepreneurs aren’t necessarily entrepreneurs themselves.
Are you doing what needs to be done? Are the people around you? Just how powerful is one bad apple on the team?
Read the rest of Sue Miley’s post, One Bad Apple, here.
Post by David Rupert. Image credits to be found in the accompanying gallery.
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