Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2006.

I recently heard about this study done in 2006. It's called the Bad Apple Effect. And they took groups of five people who are pursuing a task. I think it lasts about 60 minutes.

And for some of these groups, they infused a negative person.

And they ended up finding out that the groups with a negative person, they had 40-something

percent more conflicts.

The work was more shoddy. It was poor work. It made other people more

negative just with one bad apple, with one negative person. And then the person goes on to say that

this was just a 60 minute task. Imagine having a life with that or going to work with that and then day after day, week after week with someone who you're trying to accomplish something with and you just have one negative person.

Imagine two negative people and just how they can bleed and affect the entire culture, entire team.

And he goes on to say that if you're a leader of a team,

you have to account for the huge impact negative people have on everybody else. One negative

person could be diminishing the light of multiple people, especially if that negative person

has a loud voice, if they have a strong impact on the culture.

And if you find yourself in a situation where you're filled around, you're surrounded by negativity,

have the courage to go somewhere else. Now, I know it's easier said than done. Not all circumstances

will allow you to do that. That a whole different podcast but there are some

of you listening to this who can definitely walk away from your situation the negativity is becoming

too strong it's affecting your mental health it's affecting your life it's affecting your work

your your your confidence and you absolutely can walk away.

But for some reason, you're choosing to stay there.

I'm not saying to do it.

I don't know your situation, but I'm saying to consider what would it, what do you need to do

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