Dan Martell - “My team doesn’t know how to…”

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In this episode, Dan Gilbert talks about how to deal with your team's frustrations and how to fix them. He also talks about why it's important to pay down some organizational debt and why you should focus on the things you can control.

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00:00:00.000 Oftentimes I get the call, friends of mine read my book

00:00:02.280 and they're like, all right, Dan, I read the book,

00:00:03.980 doing all this stuff, got an assistant,

00:00:05.480 but my team's pissing me off.

00:00:07.000 So I said, make a list of all the frustrations

00:00:08.660 you have got right now with your team.

00:00:10.240 Now rank order them based on most frustrating.

00:00:13.160 Start with the first one, time management.

00:00:14.820 They're not responsive.

00:00:16.040 Have you taught them as a team how to do that?

00:00:18.860 Well, no, there's your opportunity as a leader.

00:00:20.740 Instead of going out to the world

00:00:22.480 and being exposed to cool ideas and coming back

00:00:24.780 and saying, hey, I read this book, let's do this.

00:00:26.480 Go find the bottlenecks and help resolve them

00:00:29.280 and showed them the difference

00:00:30.700 the way you think about stuff versus them,

00:00:32.620 just slow down a little bit

00:00:33.700 and first go pay down some organizational debt.

Dan Martell - August 13, 2023

“My team doesn’t know how to…”

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