The Impact of Attitude on Company Success: How Negativity Spreads Like Cancer

Name: The Impact of Attitude on Company Success: How Negativity Spreads Like Cancer
Uploaded: 2024-05-14T13:01:52+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: In this brief conversational excerpt, Speaker A describes how a negative attitude within a sales team spreads rapidly, likening it to cancer, and how…

14 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief conversational excerpt, Speaker A describes how a negative attitude within a sales team spreads rapidly, likening it to cancer, and how complaints about leads, product, or management add negative value to the company, suggesting that such individuals might be better off not being present. Jason M. Lemkin reflects on a personal epiphany: as a founder, he realized that when hires underperform or quit, the responsibility ultimately lies with him. He discusses his past frustration with employees leaving or not meeting expectations and his shift toward accepting founder accountability rather than feeling let down by team members.

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a negative attitude just spreads like cancer, where if you're complaining about the leads or you're complaining about the product or you're complaining about the manager, it just, it goes to the other reps and the person is actually adding negative value to the company. We would be better off if they weren't here. And so maybe that is helpful from like a lens to view the subjectivity from around effort and attitude.
The other thing is, and let's take 2 more questions. I'll just say, this is my— I'm embarrassed to say I had this epiphany a couple of months ago and wrote it. I should have had it 10 years ago, but, um, this is why I don't like some of this SalesFire stuff, even though it's true. It's always your fault when someone doesn't work out. Maybe you've known that because you've hired more people. It took me a while to be frustrated at people that quit, to be frustrated with people that I know could do a better job. They could do— it took me a while to not feel let down by some people as a founder.