Angelo D’Amico runs a $25M+ manufacturing company and a second consumer brand with 60 people between them. When the wrong people started accumulating inside the business, he did what a good leader does — he tried to help them. Coached them. Gave them time. Gave them the benefit of the doubt.
It didn’t work. And while he was trying to fix the individual, the people around them were quietly absorbing the cost.
This episode is about the difference between a performance problem and an alignment problem — and what it costs when you treat one like the other.
Angelo on LinkedIn: Angelo D’Amico
canadarubbergroup.com / softstall.com
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Chapters

00:00 — He Thought He Was Doing the Right Thing
00:21 — The Decision He’s Still Thinking About
01:17 — What He’s Actually Running
05:23 — What a Tough Stretch Looks Like
06:56 — When the Blinders Go On
09:06 — Problems Sound Smaller Than They Are
10:38 — Narrow Thinking and Tolerating the Wrong Things
11:20 — When to Act and When to Wait
13:48 — The Weight of Being the One Who Has to Change It
17:10 — What the Team Was Holding That He Didn’t See
19:17 — The Fear of Destabilizing What Was Left
21:34 — The Fix That Made It Worse
23:35 — Making Calls Inside the Uncertainty
26:01 — The Signals He Moves Faster On Now
27:49 — What Would Feel Different Today
29:35 — Where to Find Angelo