Who do you fire next?

I know that sounds harsh, but once your team hits five or more people, including yourself,

this becomes one of the most important questions you can ask yourself as a leader.

Because the truth is, not everyone you hire will grow with your company.

And if you're avoiding that reality, you're not avoiding pain.

You're delaying a disaster.

Today, I'm going to get into the uncomfortable truth about firing and how it actually is an act of leadership.

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The first listen I want to share with you in over 20 years of building teams is that not

everybody's going to grow with you.

When you're small, when you're starting out, you're hiring based on immediate needs. You hire someone so that they can do a job that you need to do right now. But as your company grows, as your product improves, as your goals expand, as your standards start to rise, you need more from people that you've hired. And the cool thing is that some people rise with you, but some

people don't. And it doesn't make them bad people. It doesn't make you a bad leader or a bad

person. It just means the journey is taking a turn and they're not prepared for it. The company

is growing. I've seen this so many times in my businesses where we're growing,

we're changing, we're evolving, but somebody on the team is not. And that's a problem. There's a

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