Mike Melton argues that companies should not retain high-performing employees who are toxic to the company culture. He presents the dilemma of a top producer who is entitled, misses meetings, and demoralizes coworkers, and recommends prioritizing people and culture over short-term profit by letting such individuals go.
If you have a top producer in your company, but they're one of the most toxic people in there. They're always late for meetings. They have an entitlement where they don't think they have to come to meetings. They think they know everything, but they make you the most money. So what question I want to ask you is ask yourself this. Should you keep them on your company or should you let them go? Because you never want to base your company on just money. You have to base it on people. Because these kind of people are toxic to your whole culture of your company. Just because they're a top producer doesn't mean you should keep those people. So if you're keeping these kind of people in your company and they're aggravating all the other people because they're entitled to where they don't have to come to these meetings, they act like they're better than everybody else. And just because they're producing doesn't mean they should stay in your company. These people should actually be fired. Never base your stuff. Never base your company off money.
