Hi guys,
I’m in a bit of a dilemma and could use some wisdom from this community. I’ve been trying hard to better myself as a “leader” in my small company - staying calm, being more approachable, criticize constructively - you know the routine.
But, as I’m navigating my second business attempt (started about 4 months ago), I’m hitting a wall. No big clients yet, and what’s really testing my patience are the negative attitudes of my two employees (that’s all the team as of now). It’s been a tough year and a half, and I sometimes wonder if I should keep pushing or just dismiss the team and be a freelancer/ take a job. Because it feels like I’m changing myself too much for the sake of keeping cool with the team.
But here’s the thing: I love what I do. I’m providing GPT-like solutions for sales and customer support, and it’s genuinely exciting stuff. My tech skills are solid, but sales is not my strength, and employee attitudes aren’t helping. Sometimes I wonder if it’s me - am I expecting too much, or maybe micromanaging?
What do you guys think? Any advice, experience or thoughts on handling these challenges, especially with employees, would be really helpful right now.
Fire them all, bad attitude is a real sign of incompetence.
Bad attitude is an illness that will never stop until everything is reduced to ashes.
Cut the infected flesh before the whole body succumb.
You don’t have big customers yet, you’ll manage on your own until you can get high quality employees onboard
A bit of advice from a friend of mine that has built a 80 mil a year rev business…
Fire fast. Fire at the first sign of toxicity. Because it spreads and only hurts the business. You have to nip it in the bud.
In the beginning you want to hire the best talent you can. They are the foundation of your business and ideally you want to trust that you can groom them into higher positions so as the business grows you can put them in charge of hiring and training. etc.
A bad attitude is a bad start.
If your team has only been on for 4 months and are having negative attitudes already, then something isn’t going right. Have you asked them why they are so negative? Could it be that you’re trying too hard to be cool, at the expensive of being a good leader?
Nice try Satya
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Handling employees is definitely a challenge we have developed a system to handle business operations. What you get? A team to handle your business operations. A system that makes error in business negligible. A team instead of a individual who understand what it takes to run a business. Obsession and hard work is what we deliver. We understand what is at stake for the owner and work like we own the business. The plus on all of this is by using subscription model we are able to reduce 50% cost than what you hire a individual for,
Think how to replace the two employees with Gen AI tools. You are already in the same field it should be easy pizzy.