When things don’t go our way, we get mad. When we get mad we want to take action. What can we do to rid ourselves of these problems? “I know, I’ll fire the employee who made this mistake!”
The problem is that if you ask why the employee made the mistake, and ask why to the answer, and ask why to that answer – eventually you’ll come to the real reason – you didn’t train them well enough, you didn’t lead them well, set expectations, give them the resources to do their job, create a good culture, or put the right systems in place. If you get rid of them and do the same thing with their replacement, the same thing will happen.
Don’t fire people because YOU messed up or because YOU have a bad attitude.
Get positive, and get to work to fix it.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over expecting different results !
Amazing how quickly many people are willing to get rid of a great employee rather than take the time to train them properly…also speaks to the wisdom in sleeping on a decision before acting. Emotions rarely make good decisions!
Hi Larry,
It was so good to see you in Hungary.