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The Best Person on Your Team Might Be a Pain in the A**

The Best Person on Your Team Might Be a Pain in the A**

Business Resources One
10 min
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There's somebody on your team who makes every meeting a little longer. He questions the new rule, argues with the checklist, and wants to know why before he'll do it. A lot of owners file that under "attitude" and start quietly working around him. In this episode, Mike Voories makes the case that the person driving you nuts might be one of the most valuable people you have, and that the way most of us decide who's a problem is the least reliable signal available. He walks through the one question that separates a difficult employee from a toxic one, why the brilliant jerk never gets a pass, and what it costs a company when the friction leaves and the quiet sets in. If you run a company, Somebody probably came to mind. Your challenge this week: pick your biggest pain in the ass and decide, honestly, whether the friction is costing you or carrying you. Chapters: 0:00 The Best Person on Your Team Might Be a Pain in the Ass 0:45 The Guy I'm Talking About 2:14 How We Manage Him Out 3:46 Difficult Is Not the Same Thing as Toxic 6:07 Why We Get It Wrong 7:25 What We Hear From the Other Side 8:16 Your Challenge This Week BR1 helps companies recruit and keep the people who make their teams stronger. Learn more at BusinessResourcesOne.com #BR1 #BuildStrongerTeams #CompanyCulture