Dan Martell - August 23, 2023


Why process matters more than people


Episode Stats


Length

36 seconds

Words per minute

192.7055

Word count

118

Sentence count

9


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of a good leader and how to deal with an underperformer in your organization. I also talk about how important it is to have a system in place that allows you to manage a person who is performing below par.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You can have an incredible athlete.
00:00:02.000 Under guidance of one coach,
00:00:04.000 they could be an all-star player.
00:00:05.520 And then they change teams.
00:00:06.900 And under a different coach, they're mediocre.
00:00:09.220 What changed was the construct in the context
00:00:11.680 of how they probably practice,
00:00:13.300 how they were communicated to.
00:00:14.940 That's the process thing is,
00:00:16.380 even if I hire somebody that's a high performer,
00:00:19.260 or they were in another organization,
00:00:20.980 if I don't create a scenario around reporting
00:00:24.900 and the tooling and the data,
00:00:27.400 whatever it is, it has to be communicated.
00:00:29.440 and I always put it on the leader.
00:00:31.260 If you have somebody that's underperforming,
00:00:33.020 I never default to go to the people.
00:00:35.000 I go first to the process.