Three Types of People to Fire Immediately

Want a more innovative company? Get rid of these folks. Today.

Show of hands: How many of you out there in Innovation land have gotten the “what took you so long?” question from your staff when you finally said goodbye to a teammate who was seemingly always part of problems instead of solutions?

We imagine a whole bunch of hands. (Yep, ours went up, too.)

These people—and we’re going to talk about three specific types in a minute—passive-aggressively block innovation from happening and will suck the energy out of any organization.

When confronted with any of the following three people—and you have found it impossible to change their ways, say goodbye.

Find out who the three types are in this great piece by G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Vitón on Bloomberg Businessweek

Engagement: High-performance Culture

A high-performance culture is critical for building employee, engagement, commitment and enthusiasm, acting with speed and flexibility and driving and sustaining growth.

It is characterized by:

A clear, compelling, communicated corporate purpose to shape business decisions, generate customer loyalty and inspire employee engagement, passion and maximum contribution

Shared organizational values that guide people as well as influence business practices and decisions as the organization delivers on its promises to all its constituents

An environment that encourages individual ownership of both the organization’s bottom-line results and its cultural foundation.