“Susan doesn’t pull her weight. She’s always negative, people don’t like her.”
“Robert is just incompetent. Why am I asked to do my job well when he gets to skate by?”
“This department would be better off if Beth was fired, everyone knows it, what are you going to do about it?”
Tim Cole, now founder and CEO of The Compass Alliance, used to hear criticism like this regularly in a previous work environment. Tasked with taking over a department he admits had a “septic culture,” Cole stepped into a quagmire of low morale. There was legitimate debate on shutting the operation down,” he explains, “despite the contribution to profitability.”
More of the Fast Company article from Lydia Dishman
