Dan Martell - December 09, 2025


Your bottom two employees


Episode Stats


Length

29 seconds

Words per minute

242.69205

Word count

119

Sentence count

7


Summary

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You gotta stop tolerating lazy team members. Your bottom two people on your team will risk you your top two. You clean the bottom up, the top gets better, and everybody rises. If the bottom people are pulling the top down, you lose the top, the whole thing goes down.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You gotta stop tolerating lazy team members.
00:00:02.500 Your bottom two people on your team
00:00:04.160 will risk you your top two.
00:00:05.600 The longer you go where the top people on the team
00:00:08.780 is cleaning up the bottom people on the team's mess,
00:00:12.040 then you've just taught them
00:00:13.520 and just leave it there long enough
00:00:15.140 and then the top people will come in.
00:00:16.440 But over time, they'll get resentful.
00:00:17.900 If the bottom people are pulling the top down,
00:00:19.900 you're gonna lose the top, the whole thing goes down.
00:00:21.880 You clean the bottom up, the top gets better,
00:00:24.080 everybody rises.
00:00:24.860 If you've got a C player on your team,
00:00:26.980 you have to get them off the team as soon as possible.