Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk about the caretaker performer.

The caretaker performer. The caretaker performer.

As many of you know, in my upcoming book Unstoppable, I talk about four types of performers in any organization, Undertakers, Caretakers, Playmakers, and Game Changers.

I've talked about these a lot in the episodes that we've had in the past.

I want to talk about the caretaker.

I did one several weeks ago on The Undertaker. We're going to talk about just a small step up

from the Undertaker, the caretaker, right? It's still not where you want to be. In fact,

let me give you three words to describe the caretaker, performer, and anything.

All right, I don't care if it's a non-profit, a for-profit, an athletic team.

Three words, all right, ordinary, expendable, pathetic.

I think those three pretty well sum it up.

I mean, these people pledge allegiance to the status quo. All right,

they pledge allegiance to the job description. They do just enough to get by, just enough to get

paid, just enough not to get fired. They are baseliners. That's what a caretaker is, a baseliner.

They don't initiate. They don't bring you an idea. They'll bring you a problem without a

solution. All right? They rest while they're at work. They do just enough. Now, they will do what is

required of them, but no more. Now, can you build a great team around that? I don't, I don't think so.

I don't want those people on my team. I mean,

I need people that will go the second mile, people who are engaged, people who want more out

of life than just getting by. Then they come to work, they act like they're serving a sentence.

They go out to practice, they act like they're serving a sentence. They bring down the whole team,

the caretaker. But people have argued with me. They said, well, Dave, I mean, you know,

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