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