Being Nice Is Killing Your Business
30 May 2025 · 0 min
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Omar Zenhom argues that hiring good people isn't enough. Keeping underperformers in the wrong roles creates a bottleneck that kills your business, even if they're genuinely nice.
Omar Zenhom argues that hiring good people isn't enough. Keeping underperformers in the wrong roles creates a bottleneck that kills your business, even if they're genuinely nice.
Most people you hire will be good human beings. It's just what I found over 15 years of entrepreneurship. But good doesn't always mean effective. You can be a great person and still be a poor fit for the role they're hired for. And keeping someone in a position that they're underperforming in, that doesn't make you nice, it makes you the bottleneck.
