Keeping a toxic person on your team signals weak leadership and drives out good employees. The speaker warns that tolerating bullying erodes culture and prevents the organization from reaching its potential.
The longer a toxic individual is within the confines of a team, culture, and business, you are destroying it from the inside. And you are doing such a disservice for the people around that person who only want to do a great job and to really help to build and grow the business. And accepting that behavior is basically saying that you are not a leader and that bullying or toxic behavior is acceptable. And you can only expect that at some point you're gonna lose really skilled individuals and you're going to have a culture that that is, is very dysfunctional and therefore never reaching its potential.
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
