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I’m working with a Derek right now. Highly motivated and highly incompetent. Usually it’s one or the other. How do you deal with people like this?



I don't think you can, unfortunately. I've started my own company which does very low revenue at the moment, and that's the only solution I have found - handpicking the whole team from scratch. I've spoken to a few executives and they have convinced me that performance managing someone out of the organization is so difficult that it's basically an empty threat in many countries.


The usual recommendation is to get rid of them https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/


Those are some great quotes!




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