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- 12-01-25 MEDM AM
12-01-25 MEDM AM
Mark Evans DM
December 01, 2025
Your best employees already know the truth about your company.
They see who slacks off and gets away with it. They see the deadweight you protect because they're your wife's friends who have been with you "forever".
They see you delegating critical work to people who shouldn't even be within 50 miles of your building.
They talk about it. Not to your face, but to each other and anyone who'll listen. Which breeds resentment and 100% of the time leads to the attitude of 'why am I killing myself here when all the losers get rewarded.'
You think the talent pool is the problem. It's not. Your standards are.
A-players never leave because work is hard. They leave because leadership is soft, expectations are blurry... and insane incompetence gets to run the show.
There are A-level people out there right now praying for job opening, to go work for a real leader.
But they’re not coming your way until you clean up operations, set down clear expectations... and stop letting blind loyalty beat competence.
This is on YOU. Fix it, and everything changes.
Not sure how to fix it? Let's hop on a call and see what we can do.
Mark Evans DM