Here’s a hard truth I learned in building an 8-figure business:
If it feels like you’re constantly pushing a donkey up the hill, you’ve got the wrong person
It’s slow, stinky & exhausting
The donkey never becomes the stallion
Pushing a donkey up the hill looks like:
You spend more time fixing their problems than they spend solving them:
- Redoing their work
- Constant babysitting
- Explaining the same stuff over and over
- Sending daily reminders about basic tasks
- Creating tracking sheets just to know what they’re doing.
No matter how many systems you build, they never actually improve.
Most owners (including myself) sense this feeling but wait way too long before making a change.
We make excuses for them.
We brainwash ourselves into believing their potential is more important than their current performance.
My Rule: Hire for immediate impact.
I expect new hires to be producing within two weeks.
Not two months. Not two quarters.
Why?
Hiring is like flipping a deck of cards:
- You’ll get some twos and fours
- You’ll get some sixes and eights
- Eventually, you’ll hit the kings and queens
The longer you hold onto the wrong cards, the more it costs you
You have to keep hiring & discarding until you get the right cards.
That may sound harsh but we’re not running a charity.
A) How many donkeys do you have right now?
B) What are you going to do it about it?
Cheers
Brian
