The Most Toxic Person In The Workplace – by Simon Sinek

I've worked with the Navy Seals and I asked them who do you pick, how do you pick the guys that go on Seal Team Six, because they're the best of the best, the best, the best, and they drew it, they drew a chart for me. and on one side they drew, they wrote the word performance and on the other side they wrote the word confidence. The way they define the terms is battlefield performance and off-battlefield performance, so these are your skills. you make your quarterly profits however you want to translate it traditional correct performance that's how you're out of the battlefield what kind of

person

are you as they put it I can trust you with my life but do I trust you with my money? and my wife this is what they told me no one wants this

person

, the low performer, low confidence, of course, of course, everyone wants this person, the high performer, high confidence, of course, what they learned is that this person, the high performer and low trust, is a Toxic Leader and

toxic

team member and they would rather be a medium high trust performer, sometimes even a low high trust performer.

That's a relative scale above this person. This is the highest performing organization on the planet and this person is more important than this. person and the problem in business is that we have unbalanced metrics, we have a million metrics to measure someone's performance and insignificant or zero metrics to measure someone's trustworthiness, so what we end up doing is promoting or rewarding

toxic

ity in our businesses, which is bad for The game is long because it eventually destroys the entire organization. The irony is that it is incredibly easy to find these people who go to any team and say who it is and they will all point to the same person equally if you go to any team and say who.

Do you trust more than anyone? Who always has your back and when ships sink, they will be there with you. They will also point to the same person. It is the

most

gifted natural leader who is creating an environment for everyone else to succeed. And she may not be his greatest individual player, but that person had better keep her on his team.