Petri Kajander

EpisodePurpose 'n Clarity

Change the people

20 June 20223 min listen
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Can you change your people?

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0:03 Welcome to business purpose and clarity with petri I'm your host we talk about startup life insights practical tips mistakes failures and everything between other people are finish the sentence with your own words and let me know comment or send an email it was a french philosopher who had a one idea but maybe you have a other one and today the idea is that this is just one assumption happy to be proven wrong you cannot change people that's the premise if you cannot change people you don't have or you think at least part of the people some of the people are not really the ones you want to have in your company so the cultural fit.

1:06 The fit for the states of the organization is not really what do you need to do you could try to prove me wrong and change the people maybe it's easier to change the people part of the people otherwise you may be the problem and you may need to leave but let's not go to that direction in order to avoid the whole thing it would be not easier put earlier at least to start with the good people try to fit the right type of people because if you cannot change the people it's better to take the right people from the beginning but that's not always the case maybe you are coming a bit later on or some other reason you just have the people you have you can always start to get new people fire the other people.

2:09 Hiring part is usually the easier part it's more fun the firing parts might actually also be not fun it's never fun I'm not going that direction either but necessary even for the people who are leaving because if they're not a good fit for the organization they may not enjoy being there either it's actually better that they find something else this is a really good fit for them so everybody wins even though it can be painful and it is painful for for the company where they lack resources now and for the individuals who need to find something else to do so if you cannot change the people change the people.

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