Mick Hunt argues ideas are cheap. Focus on listening to others and sorting your team by impact: 30% need enablement, 30% aren't aligned, 15-20% drive culture, and 10-15% should go. Assume people aren't stupid.
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Anyone can come up with ideas. Maybe they're good, maybe they're bad. People like to talk about this all the time, but, you know, really, it's deciding where to focus. And so when I decide where to focus, my first step, whether it's meeting, you know, a person who asked me to coach them or it's taking over a company, is to stop thinking about what I know and start listening to what other people know. Right. Because, you know, when you look at, you know, a company that hasn't been able to grow as fast as people wanted it to, or they haven't, or they're struggling, there's probably 30% of the people in there that are really talented but don't know what to do to actually get that talent out or aren't allowed to do it. There's another 30% of the people in there that are very talented, but they're not going to help you get to where you need to go. They're not bad people. And then the most important part is there's somewhere between 15 to 20% of those people are people that will actually be culture carriers and that will actually drive other people. And then there's 10 to 15% who you gotta get rid of. You gotta get rid of them. But if you assume everybody is stupid when you come in, then they will assume that you're stupid and that you don't see them. It.
