Dan Martell - July 13, 2025


Stop Tolerating Bad Employees


Episode Stats


Length

29 seconds

Words per minute

234.34343

Word count

116

Sentence count

6


Summary

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If you're the leader, and you're not the one cleaning up the bottom, so that the top keeps increasing the average, the whole thing goes down. You clean the bottom up, the top gets better, and everybody rises.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Stop tolerating lazy team members.
00:00:02.200 The longer you go where the top people on the team
00:00:05.620 is cleaning up the bottom people on the team's mess,
00:00:08.960 then you've just taught them,
00:00:10.620 just leave it there long enough,
00:00:12.100 and then the top people will come in.
00:00:13.380 But over time, they'll get resentful.
00:00:14.860 They'll be like, yo, I care way too much,
00:00:16.780 and I'm picking up way too much slack.
00:00:18.220 If you're the leader,
00:00:18.980 and you're not the one cleaning up the bottom
00:00:20.660 so that the top keeps increasing the average,
00:00:23.200 you're gonna lose the top, the whole thing goes down.
00:00:25.340 You clean the bottom up, the top gets better,
00:00:27.360 you find more people, and everybody rises.