89 - Spotting a Mutineer

The reason that you should hire true believers is that empires are always taken down from the inside. You can do everything to guard your culture and put the right people in your organization but sooner or later a non-believer will sneak in. At first, they are tough to see, they might act and talk like everyone else. They did enough to get onto your team and now that they are there, they are ready to cause disruption.

I have never understood why some people just like to be disruptive. They are the first to object, gossip, they're not transparent with those around them, and they can rob the momentum of an entire team.

They don't actively want to be on your team, they are putting up with it. They're not excited about moving your organization forward, they're with you for a paycheck. They lack excitement for the work and do the absolute minimum they can get by.

I call these people mutineers.

There is a reason that when there was a mutiny on a ship, mutineers had to walk the plank…