At what point does believing in someone’s potential stop being leadership and start being a liability?

In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill answer three listener questions about one of the hardest tensions in leadership: the gap between what you see in your people and what they actually deliver. They walk through how to handle a high-talent, low-output team member, how to recognize when a long-tenured leader has plateaued, and whether the popular idea of “unlimited potential” actually holds up. Believing in your team is valuable, but does it replace standards and results?

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Why potential without performance becomes a liability, and how to set objective criteria before emotion drives the decision
• How to know when a team member has hit their ceiling and what to do about it without losing empathy
• Why “unlimited potential” is a myth, and what a leader can actually be responsible for

You can want it for them all day long. If they don’t want it for themselves, nothing you do will matter.