Stuck Entrepreneurs

Dump That Nonperforming Albatross

The businessperson who collects or hoards especially unneeded items is mired in the malaise of “stuck-hood.” The costs and impact of this coveting are staggering, often disorienting to your team and customers, and sometimes even fatal.

This includes any number of packrat uncalled-for caches of goodies. Do you recognize anything about these tendencies to stockpile?

• Nonperforming staff, whose work causes yet more work for others around them, and for you too.

• Ineffective managers and executive decision makers who have risen well above their level of competence, and are incurring unnecessary costs and putting your business at risk.

• Severely stifled employees, generally friends and relatives, cast into positions ...