Dan Martell - July 23, 2025


Fire Toxic People


Episode Stats


Length

35 seconds

Words per minute

207.58928

Word count

124

Sentence count

3


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how to deal with people who are horrible to work with, and how you can fix them. I also talk about why you should hire a person who can perform, and why you shouldn t hire someone who is terrible at it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 every company has issues but the biggest one is cancer cancer is the person who can perform that
00:00:08.060 is a piece of the person that can hit their numbers but is horrible to work with i had a
00:00:12.600 guy on my engineering team he was like that super smart genius iq and for like six months i allowed
00:00:18.360 him to never come to meetings to never do and i let it go on for way too long and then finally i
00:00:23.460 went to my co-founder and i was like done enough's enough and it was almost like everybody's
00:00:28.060 performance tripled the day after.
00:00:30.200 Cancer is the person that doesn't have the values
00:00:32.700 that actually can perform.
00:00:33.800 That person will cost you your business.