Craig Groeschel

And so consider redesigning the seat.

Adjust responsibilities, add support, remove friction.

If you can possibly redesign the seat and help them be successful there, give it a shot.

If you look at it and say, I can't do it, then maybe you have another dynamic to consider.

The second issue might be you have the wrong person and the wrong pairing.

This is so important.

And I don't hear a lot of people talking about this.

You have a strong team player, but the team dynamic is unbalanced.

And this is a common challenge in leadership.

You take a great leader and you put a similar type of leader next to him or her.

And so maybe you've got an organized systematic leader and she hires someone to work with her who's just like her.

Or maybe you have someone who's more slow and deliberate and methodical in their approach, and he hires someone else who's thoughtful and cautious, very similar like him.

Here's what you need to recognize, that strength paired with the same strength isn't always strength multiplied.

Let me say it again.

Strength paired with the same strength

isn't always strength squared or strength multiplied.

And I'll give you three specific examples.

And if you think about all of your time in different organizations, you might've seen something like this.

Let's say you've got a relational leader with a relational leader.

What happens?