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

I get it. It's hard. But you SHOULD fire people.

3 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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Mike Andes delivers a short, direct argument that managers should fire persistently low-performing team members despite the difficulty, because keeping them can threaten the business’s survival. He recommends cutting lowest performers, shifting more work to high performers, and prioritizing profitability to prevent everyone from losing jobs.

This number is still low, then they gotta get fired, right? I understand that laying off team members is not fun or exciting. I hate doing it. However, if it's gonna cause the business to go out of business because there's no money being made and we're losing cash, then everyone's gonna lose their job anyways. So why not cut the lowest performers and increase the amount of work that's being done by your high performers and then actually make a profit?