Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

He made a hiring mistake that can only be solved by ONE thing

29 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational clip from a Mike Andes YouTube video where an unnamed speaker admits a hiring mistake (hiring too quickly / not taking time to find the right people). Mike Andes explains how early-stage oversight by a strong leader can sustain culture when the team is very small, but as headcount grows (around 10–12), subcultures emerge, people can form opposing crews, and weak hires can become the default standard without strong leadership to maintain culture and performance.

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The mistake was on my part, not taking my time to hire folks, finding the right people. And maybe I grew a little too fast.
When you go from four, five, six employees, like someone like a strong leader, Pat, for example, can keep a hand on people enough to where things don't get out of control, then when you start getting 10, 12 people, there's subcultures that start happening inside each crew, and then the people start going against each other. And that's when, like, strong leadership is needed to keep that from deteriorating the culture of the business. Especially if you're not hiring people that aren't all, like, super great, there's going to be weaker players that will become the default standard. If there's not strong leadership.