Firing someone who's lazy or toxic, that's easy.

But firing someone who's kind, loyal, well-liked,

and just not getting the job done,

that's one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do as a business owner.

I've done it, and I'm here to tell you it's necessary.

Let's talk about how to fire good people who are bad employees the right way.

Welcome back to the $100 MBA show.

I'm your host, Omar Zin Home, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week,

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business.

Here's the truth. Most people you hire will be good human beings. It's just what I found in my

over 15 years of entrepreneurship. But good doesn't always mean effective. You can be a great person

and still be a poor fit for the role they're hired for. And keeping someone in a

position that they're underperforming in, that doesn't make you nice. It makes you the bottleneck.

I'm going to get into the cost of keeping someone who's not a good fit, but there's two things

I need to highlight first. Number one, if somebody's not working out, you need to take responsibility.

At the end of the day, you're in charge of the business.

You or somebody on your team who you hired made this hire, right?

They didn't just show up in your business all of a sudden.

You made the choice and thought that they were good enough for this job.

It's becoming apparent, you're mistaken, right?

So you need to own it.

This is not their fault. This is actually your fault. So you got to fix it. The second thing I want to share with you is that you have a responsibility as the business owner to serve the

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