What to Do When Top Leaders Leave
There was an interesting question raised in the comments section yesterday. And no easy answers, but definitely worth looking at…
The person making the post mentioned that in their company the same few leaders were making all the presentations. Things began to get stagnant, and then the leaders left for another company.
The remaining team was in limbo. This is actually a common occurrence in our business. Usually what happens is some people stay and circle the wagons, other follow the departed, and a lot of people just freeze like deer in the headlights, waiting and not knowing what to do.
So what should you do in this situation?
First of course, I think you look at why did the leaders leave? Did they discover some integrity issue with the company or come to the decision that it wasn’t a viable opportunity? Did they get paid off with a sweetheart deal to jump somewhere else? Or were they just flighty, not willing to do the work necessary for growth and looking if the grass was greener elsewhere?
The answer to that question really determines the action you must take. And whether or not they are coming back and trying to poach people cross-line to go into their new company.
If you believe your company is viable and they made a mistake by leaving, you need to say so. You don’t have to run down the people that leave. It’s okay to say that they decided to try something else and you wish them success doing it.
Now if they are coming after your people, making up stories, or doing other unethical things, you have to defend your business. It may be necessary for your company to file an injunction against them and you may have to take the gloves off yourself.
You business is vulnerable in situations like this as you’ll have lots of new people that aren’t over the line yet, and they will be susceptible to the pressure to leave. So you have to be proactive and protect your team.
There’s a company out there right now that is zealously buying distributors with guarantees and sweetheart deals. And there will be many more in the years ahead. It is not a question of “if” you will lose some top people, it’s a question of “when.” It happens to everyone.
If you’ve had experience in this situation, please share how you have dealt with this, and we can explore it deeper in the days ahead.
-RG
Indeed, my dear Dr. Watson… I’ve been into MLM a year and a half, and it is amazing the things I’ve seen. I’ve seen uplines leave and “say” our company had issues, never clarifying, our company deffending itself, people that jumped trying like crazy to make us who decided to stay put change our opinion, most of my downline “change lines” within the company, etc. You name it, dirt exists, period.
BUT, and this is the reason I decided to keep on going, there are far more good things in the system, the products, the opportunities, the human growth, etc.
The number of good people I’ve met and keep relationships with far outnumber the amount of unethical ones (not necessarily bad, merely lacking the appropriate education in this sense)
My personal growth has been enormous
The money has not come yet, but we are working on it.
The important issue in this is using your mind, maybe after your senses go back to normal after the shock, but not letting your guts run the whole show.
To focalize on the possibilities, not the bad moments, is an ability you can gain in this industry, it takes work from you but it definitely can happen
Randy
Provided that you don’t leave us, I don’t really want to think about it.
I trust you, and know that you will never live us. Even if the company treat you wrong, I know that you will do everything to protect us, and always be there to support us.
You, like real leaders, know, that from the moment you have a team, it’s not about the money anymore. It’s about Leadership!
And Leaders protect their people, whatever it takes.
I only accept leaders leaving a company based on incorrect or ilegal atitudes from the company affecting everybody, that the leader itself could not help resolve.
If the leader sees that the company could do better, help the CEO to see that, and do the right things to improve it’s performance.
If a leader just goes away because there is a better opportunity around, he just proved everybody he was not a real leader: he was a hunter!
Having said that, if you Randy, or Eric, or Ann Fenstein, or David Fenstein, or Chris Sorensen, or Tim Berry or any of you that I admire leaves the company we are currently working with, with not a very good justification like I just described, You will make me go travel alot, but I will get you guys :).
Love you all
Alfredo “Mad” Rodrigues
If top leaders of my company leave, I just wish them well and success, and I continue with my business, because those who left the company were not real leaders. True leaders have integrity. Now, I don’t follow them ’cause I am a leader, and a true leaders do not leave.
Randy, what is the name of the company that is zealously buying distributors with guarantees and sweetheart deals? I’d like to avoid them. Please advise.
I am not sure about and have no proff on it , but it seems that it’s a company which name start at “mona’ and end at ” vie” …….You probabily heart about then , so , yeah ….You should avoid then…
Recently, a big leader left one of the companies that I am in and it was kind of a bomb- he was extremely positive, and then one day he left. I think he got a deal from the new company, but on tyhe other hand, I know that people who were struggling with the first business left with him, and are doing very well now.
I wasn’t interested in the business they left for, so it was a simple decision for me. I do things for MY reasons, y’know?
Shit happens. What’s important is that each person must do what is good for each one. You can complain, cry, do nothing or TAKE ACCTION.
A few months ago some leaders of my company left creating a big confuse into the team; the team ask me what to say when people ask them why they left and my answer was: Tell them why you stay instead of why they left, you know your reasons not the other ones reasons.
It works for me I hope is helpful to other ones, have a nice day every day.
Loved the “tell them why you stay” The 4 “leaders” that left my business have since been in 4 others since leaving mine. All that within a 2 year time frame!
It does make your knees want to buckle, but we learned from it. This is business; every business loses accounts and leaders.
Hi Randy,
Ultimately we have to do is in our own best interest. Stay with a company that no longer supports you or that you don’t feel a part of, and you’ll be miserable. And your misery will trickle down. So leave but don’t raid your former downline.
Some company’s policies and procedures prevent the departing distributor from talking about their reasons for leaving for a certain period of time. Most P&Pz have a clause which prevents the departing distributor from talking to anybody but his own personally sponsored people.
The penalty for violating these clauses could put a major hole in your pocket book.
Kim
Our leaders are currently deal jumping. As far as I am concerned, it is okay for them to leave. I feel like they have been too control of the TEAM and holding many leaders within the team back. I have decided to step up and be the leader that lives within me.
People have to take a look at themselves and say. “Am I in this to make money etc or am I in this for the leader?” If you are in it for the leader, “Good luck with that”. If you have a real WHY, then it really won’t matter, if EVERBODY leaves you can start from scratch.
If they leave that is just more room at the top for the rest of us.
Actually, if you think about it. Alot of people that are top money earners there leader/sponsor left long time ago. (With the exception of Randy and his sponsor). So lets just get them out of the way. They probably have done what they were put there to do anyway. Let them move on. NEXT.
Every industry has people leave one company for another. “Why” is a worthless question because the answer is always “Because” … and every word after a because is a lie…. a story colored for some purpose other than full disclosure.
If you are in a company ‘because’ of who leaves you will also. Sad actually. The great thing about NWM is it is about YOU, Inc. If you are working with people for their best interests the company and your upline and the ‘leadership’ will always be secondary. Trust your gut, your own judgement and when it’s time to leave … you will.
It’s incumbant upon each of us who chose this profession to quickly learn how to create a culture in our own organizations and keep on building so we can rapidly become independent of our sponsorship line.
By the same token, we want our organization to function independently of us (or else we just have a J-O-B).
Our opportunity is independent of any other leader in our company as long as our company is viable.
The fact that good people change companies for good (personal) reasons is no reason for anyone else to act any differently than we would if they hadn’t changed.
Assuming the top leaders didn’t leave because they knew something bad was coming the company’s way, I think you can negate the importance of top leaders by developing leaders closer to home.
Randy, this is a tough one when you can see things from both sides. But how I look at it, I think it depends on the “why” and “how” the leader leaves.
There is something to think about even before that – if the leader was doing what he or she was supposed to do in the first place – creating leaders in the organization with a system – those who are left in the business should be able to carry on with what they were doing (you train about this in your Duplication Nation CDs).
Everyone has his or her opinions and suspicions. Sometimes we will never know why a leader leaves. We are faced with hard decisions and choices in our life and it is the same in network marketing. We left our previous company and it was the hardest decision we had to make. We loved that company and still do. We left everything but we had our reasons.
No one really knows what goes on inside of someone. This is a profession when you have to stand tall and act as if everything is going great even when inside you are dying. You do this if you are a leader and you do this to give confidence to your organization. Although people are in your group, it is their business as it is yours and we have no right to disrupt their business for our personal gain.
It is easy to criticize but if you have never been a leader and never had to make this decision, it would be impossible for you to know how you would react or make the decision to stay or leave. So the “why” is personal and everyone has the right to have that choice.
I personally don’t believe being “bought” as that means to me that you can be bought again. But this is a business and that is a form of transaction. Everyone has their own way of making things happen. Again, it is a personal choice.
What concerns me is the “how” a leader leaves. It is with the HOW that I see could make or break a leader’s reputation. If the leader leaves with dignity and minimizing the disruption that will be created by leaving, it would make sense to me as that has integrity and respect.
When that leader leaves and immediately starts to bad mouth their previous company or solicits heavily from the company they just left, I don’t think that is good practice. It makes me question his or her integrity. And I question why people would want to work with that kind of a character anyway. It makes the leader look stupid in the eyes of the professional.
Tomoe
PS
One icon of network marketing, Mark Hughes, used to tell his distributors “we love you anyway” no matter what. He said to treat those that leave with respect even if you don’t like how they leave because you never know – they may come back one day. For him, it was important to protect the “golden goose” (his company) and he did this in many ways. One was with treating people with respect even if they decide to leave. It should go both ways I think.
Great comment by Tomoe highlighting “HOW” they leave. If “WHY” they leave may always remain a mystery, but “HOW” they leave always can give a good clue about “WHY” they left.
Javed Iqbal
Educator | Empowerer | Entrepreneur
Lahore, Pakistan
It’s incumbant upon each of us who chose this profession to quickly learn how to create a culture in our own organizations and keep on building so we can rapidly become independent of our sponsorship line.
Read more: http://www.networkmarketingtimes.com/blog/what-to-do-when-top-leaders-leave/#ixzz0OfhZ2Id8
It is tricky, because people join “you” first. And people stay -in part -because of the leadership. It’s certainly inevitable that leaders ( and followers) will leave. This is business, it happens. We perhaps all need to ask ourselves if our prominent upline leader left, would we falter? We all think ‘it won’t happen to me’ ‘my upline leader wouldn’t leave’
But what if they did?… I know my commitment to my company is strong. I know for a fact that if my upline leader left, i would not! But perhaps that is because i have so much respect for some of the other leaders in the company. What if they all left?…
Worth some reflection!
Interesting though, if this was a just a job.. and our boss left?.. who would care!
mmmhhh we had all this in our company leader leaving ,coming back to check out your friends in all social networks,shocked they did,but you know what Randy we survivied have rank advanced twice and we will be stuck with the company as long as they are around…..and you of course
so leaders yes but what you do with your business is your own doing nobody can help you there. Even in our company now we have leaders who have achieved the highest rank ,but lets see how long they last………….
Great topic, Randy.
When a leader leaves, it’s also opportunity for new leadership to take his place.
In my case, I see leaders stepping up and the vacuum is already been filled up with new leadership.
= Oren
I really like all of these comments and agree with them. I have been in MLM for 7 yrs. now, after walking out of the Corporate world for >30 years in 3 very successful careers and a nice paycheck, but not worth the 60-70 hour weeks, on call pager 24/7 and the mental stress/physical body breakdown. I have never looked back, nor do I ever intend to! I am ‘free’ now to be my own boss, build my own success and loving it too much!!!!
With my first MLM, I discovered I did not do well with providing services vs. visual products, so my 2nd MLM was a product I tried first, upon actually experiencing what it could do for me firsthand, I was in as a distributor, hook, line & sinker…..and 6 yrs. later, I am STILL with them, will never leave them, for they have grown slowly and purposely, now a billion $ company, high in integrity & expanding with only a few more products of their own that are just as superb as the first one. In these 6 yrs., I ran across 1 more MLM & a business I created myself that both work hand in hand with this company’s products I have been with…..they ALL work, hand in hand, in the health & wellness for people AND animals …. my 2nd compassion…animals. I have most definitely found my WHY in life!!
All of 2007 & part of 2008, I had some personal & family issues that took precedence, so I slowed my 3 businesses down to a minimum on my part, but still always there for my team & for my customers, if they needed me.
It is very easy to stay on a hiatus longer than you really need to, but when 4 months ago, customers I did not know at all, starting finding me on the Internet, or through one of my biz relationships, and calling me for my products. I was not ready or prepared for them, shame on me, but I have jumped back in rapidly, feet first, because my past mentor trainings taught me that ‘you know when you are success when people come to you vs. you having to seek out people’ …. and it was happening to me…..NOW.
In the past 2 months, I have been able to step the momentum back up again… only to discover the majority of my ‘upline’ support system had all left to another MLM (which only provides one service, which I told you is not my cup of tea at all …, so as they one, by one, moved on throughout this last year, I told them I would not be following them, I liked where I was, would not leave my team & customers high & dry.
I thought only a few of them had left, but it was actually the majority of my upline and they were the ones who had built the Atlanta market, which was now defunct. In addition, the big corporate sponsored events we had had all these years in Atlanta had ceased, due to the ‘scare’ of the economy & being conservative/proactive, which I did not blame them one bit. But these meetings were very beneficial when I had taken a lot of my prospects of being customers and/or distributors, to these meetings & signed them up that very night. How was I going to do this now with ME being my own upline & downline?
Well, I am an optimist and definitely not a quitter, so I took a lunge forward, and first thing, called straight in to Corporate to see how they could still support & help me to build Atlanta’s market back up. I guess they had already been discussing this very same subject, but had no clue how or who they could get to do this that they knew & trusted. Well, when yours truly called in, who had been around since the 2nd year of the company’s existence (thus very loyal), who still had a team & clients despite the 1.5 yr. hiatus (still kept my line momentum going w/o me), and still striving for a bigger team and more customers (still faith & trust in the success of the company and its product)……they said I just might be the one they were looking for to accomplish this!! They were even more enthused when I told them I, in addition to being in the IT field, has also been a school teacher prior and a trainer during my Corporate career….this was a plus in their eyes.
So glad I took the initiative immediately to call them to see what to do about the Atlanta market, because now it will be me, with the help of others in the business in the Atlanta area, to be the top company personnel to spearhead this 2nd successful wave in Atlanta!!
The company now has grown to 3 more products in my absence and a 4th one just launched 1.5 months ago (total of 5 now)……all outstanding products. But being totally new products to me, I knew I needed to order, use and learn how/why they can be used, right away…..which is the 2nd thing I have been doing.
The 3rd is, for the past month, I have been actively searching for the company’s orphaned people in the Atlanta area, who are still wondering who shut the lights off, and feel as I do, wanting to build the Atlanta market back up to what it used to be and beyond!!! I have also sought (with two fantastic tools, Facebook and Twitter) the advice and support of other Corporate personnel, and other company organizations across the US. They have all been so willing to help me, it has been an awesome feeling of ‘welcome back home’.
This is the first time in 6 yrs. of MLM I have been orphaned or abandoned like this, so I guess I have been lucky. A friend, who will also be one of us building the market again, sent this article to me tonight, Randy. It and the comments following, have just hit the bullseye of what has happened to me here in Atlanta with my particular prior team of our company. I am so glad to be reinforced by your article and the commentors here, to know I have been doing some of the right things to get back on track, and I have learned even more with this article and the comments. I thank all of you.
Though my ‘upline organization’ started drifting off little by little over a year ago, I was ‘out’ during this time, so the full impact did not hit me until a couple of months ago. It has been long enough time now that those who did leave have discovered ‘the grass was NOT greener on the other side’. I don’t know our company’s policies about leaving, or if one can come back in, or not, which might prevent them from returning. Or, they may be too embarrassed/humbled to dare come back, and may drift off in search of other MLMs or companies/jobs. But I am no longer looking for their support, I am building my very own support team.
Another big concern of mine, and I expressed this to Corporate on my first call to them, is some of my organization most likely did not leave and are just as ‘orphaned/abandoned’ as I am, so I need to find those left and let them be a part of the regrowth in our area again, if they so desire. I am also concerned about the customers left behind in the grand exodus. They most likely have NO clue what happened and may no longer order as a result.
Corporate is very willing to help me by doing this research of people in their files. I want to contact all of them, let them know that Atlanta is on its way back to the top again and give them the choice to jump back on the band wagon, or not. At least they will know, we will be here and not going anywhere at all.
So that is my story……..
Yeah this is true. It happens and will happen and nothing to do with it. The thing is if you are happy where you are then keep doing it !
I’ve been with my company 4 and 1/2 years. I’ve seen several top income earners leave since my time with the company.
I think it all depends on why you joined to begin with. Me, I joined because of the opportunity, not because of a particular person, so their decision to leave has no impact on me unless, of course they start trying to recruit my people, which I will not tolerate.
However, if you joined because you wanted to work with that particular person and now they left, that’s a tough situation to find yourself in and there are really no easy answers.
Randy, this topic shaking many people, je je.
It happened to me twice. The first time I began a witch hunt in my team against those who where thinking of leaving, so I lost leadership and, of course, I lost team members.
The second time I Ignored those who left and began a huge campaign about all the attributes in our company. My leadership grew and so did my team.
Always focus on your leadership, never in how “bad” are those who left.
Well, i dare say I have been in different sides of the same situation in my many years in the biz.. I can’t say i made the best moves but i am willing to share so tat pple also learn wat NOT to do 🙂 hahahaha..
The abandoned downline:
My immediate uplines discovered something wrong with the company when they started paying up their bonuses later and later and so they left. Like and abandoned kid, I spent a few months getting angry at my leader and meanwhile, like a lost soul, we just drifted along and in the end, a group of us abandoned networkers banded together, got an old leader who was semi retired to come and lead the whole group so we did our trainings together, had groupings together and litereally helped each other in the biz.. only our points and cheques were seperate.
The leader who left:
But sometime into the biz, we realized tat the company is really in the reds. At this point, the company invited a new leader in. He is a very very experienced and successful networker. THere was some struggle about whether to continue as our group was or follow him since he was eventually made my upline.. and considered direct since the leader above me was not around any more.. tat is also because his system and teh system tat our group was using is a totally different system.
Following him for a few months, I started making some good money but something big happened in the management of the company. And being very experienced, he told us that we had to leave or we would all go down with the company. I met up with my leaders individually to discuss with them about wat we should do… we all agreed we will follow him and leave together.
Being close to another line made this whole process difficult. Especially difficult for me was because I really loved my ex company.. it changed my life totally and the management and me are so close we are great friends as well… so making a decision to leave was really tough for me.. there was lot of guilt about leaving my ‘friends’ behind to pursue a different path… I couldnt seem to move forward in my new company despite a better leader, better products, better system and better plan.
But banding with pple in different lines previously also had its long term effect of having my pple still come into contact with other pple who have chosen to stay.. and in times of division, there are always lots of stories flying here and there.. and usually, they are not nice…
My leaders leave:
So eventually, after all the fighting, even though everyone agreed to move together. By the time we had to make a stand, all but one or two good pple really followed us and rest all left.. the ex company eventully closed down but they started another company and some of them joined them, some are just so disgusted with the ‘fight’ that they left the industry.
Because we have not held on to the generation two or three leaders, eventually we lost the whole group and had to start from scratch in the new company.
i hope this helps someone:)
PS: In my experience, it is easy to get upset and emotional when pple leave.. but when you send them along and bless them, you get to stay frens and there is still a chance they might ever come back.. but when you get all angry at them and start a hate campaign, you can be sure this is lost friendship.
Hi, Randy
You probabily know about some ‘past’ leaders that left our company…..
So , that guys where not making money and I believe just get a deal from the same Leaders Buying company …they are just part of the ‘shoping day ‘ of someone you know welll…
So , Guys , they care , someone is writing checks , but they are not in the compensation plan …..
They are looking for people that can sell Ice to esquimos , or acai in Brazil …..lol
Well unfortunatley this is what happens in this business. But the reality is, this is what happens in Corporate America also. There are always companies out there with their headhunters trying somehow to capture the talented people. Thats why most Fortune 500 companies have confidentiality contracts with upper and executive level employees. I’ve been in the network marketing business for about 10 years, and I have seen a lot of terrible things happen. And no matter how good your product is, or how great your compensation plan is, there are always going to be people in your company who leave and go somewhere else, or quit the business all together. I admit, I have left a couple of different companies myself.
But as a rule I make sure that when someone in my upline or downline leaves, I try to know and understand why. And I never try to pressure them into staying, or criticize them for leaving. I learned that someone who leaves may just be that someone you need one day. They may go off to build a huge business in another company, and then one day you find yourself face to face with them. And there may be an opportunity with that person to make a lot of money, or do something really big. I just don’t want to burn any bridges. Never know when your going to have to cross back over them.
Hi Randy,
First of all, thanks for bringing this issue in to light. I am from India and associated with one company for around 2 years now. This is my first Network Marketing company. I have seen lot of people, including my uplines, downlines, and cross line shifting to other companies, getting poached, and poaching others. But if we analyze this matter we will understand, its mainly due to
a. Confidence on the company they are working with ( Products, Income plan, Support)
b. Ego Matters, (Relationship with downlines as well as Uplines)
c. Team support
(a) Confidence only comes by doing a thorough research before joining the company. Most of the people get temped by seeing some extra bucks with a newly started company. They wont look for the credibility or stability. Also while shifting the company they are not even thinking about the credibility they have earned in this company infront of people. They need to sacrifice all and join the new company.
b. Ego Matters – yes sometimes I have found some people who cant work with the team, they look for making a new team.
c. Support – This is one of the most important thing. People may shift due to lack of support or mentoring.
Dilip Vamanan
WOW what a hot topic…. (sorry i’ve been gone so long)
what to do when leaders leave?
Silly question when you think of it….
1stly what have the leaders really done for your”s or anyone else’s organization? i mean really? did they lead, or just bask in the light and brag about how successful they are?
2ndly, so what! leaders leaving is nothing new, its gonna happen with shifting down lines and making money it has become a commodity just like anything else…. airlines are buying fuel options, (puts and calls) to drive prices up and down… every where a dime is controlled by some action you can bet someone will exploit it, so why not MLM as well?
a “leader” has influence over an organization he/she built and with X,Y.Z company he/she makes $75,000.00 a month, but shift that organization to ABC company and he/she makes over $150,000.00 a month plus a “sweat heart deal” who wouldn’t take the deal? (before you answer that think about it for a moment! i covered this in DETAIL in my last book) what is the average person off the street willing to do for $1,000,000.00? now couple that with the power, and authority and multiple millions in bonuses they could have with X,Y,Z company….
3 rdly, who said the leaders, top income earners are the most honest, ethical, and upstanding people on the planet? in my many years in this industry i know first hand they most certainly are not! the quote, “absolute power corrupts, absolutely,” applies to this industry as it does to any other. in my opinion, more so to this industry!
i don’t like to hang around many of my wealthy “so called friends” because they are always looking for ways to acquire whatever it is they want, including and not limited to houses, cars, and spouses, doesn’t matter to them who owns it at the time. Donald Trump’s advice, find the brightest, smartest people to work with and don’t trust them is perfect advice for this group of people.
i know, i know, i know… the leaders in “your” companies are not like that… and i am wrong… you don’t need to correct me, i know i am wrong…. so save your breath and time….
bbbuuutttt do you really know them?
try not making a dime in your company and see if they give you the time of day!
try getting on an elevator in a crowded hotel, and see if they and their entourage won’t muscle their way into your elevator and force you to wait for the next one!
try this one… just for fun, when you meet them at your companies convention, ask them who they are because you have never heard of them before.
or watching over their children when they are in a new country, making sure they are safe, secure and taken care of, tell me if they thank you, or even notice you unless you have put a few million dollars in their pockets first!
i have seen all kinds of leaders in the last 20 years or so… even the sand baggers; the ones that wait for the “right opportunity” to come along… so they can stack the deck in their favor. they can’t take the chance for failure because their other businesses would suffer as a result, so they wait, and wait, claim to be looking for the “right company for them, the best fit.” what they were looking for was a company that already had the opportunity to stack the deck, nothing unethical, just happen to be in the right place at the right time, insuring this woman’s success. and if the company goes out of business in fours or so this woman still comes out smelling like a rose and her other businesses wont suffer as a result because the failure wasn’t her fault… while she still goes on and on about how she can build a business anywhere any time… bla bla bla….
i know top income earners, guys and gals that make hundreds of thousands a month that would sleep with your wife and husband just because they can, and will do it in a heart beat… they use their children and family as props, they’ve got mistresses and what not in many countries and cities and walk on stage as if they are saints and won’t give the average person the time of day because they aren’t at the “right pin level.”
so what if your big earning leaders leave! know this without a doubt, they will leave, in a heart beat, you are in business for yourself but not by yourself. build your own organization, build your own following, follow Randy’s advice and quit being a grinder and become your company’s Rock Star of your own organization and then when leaders can come and go and it will barely make a ripple in your income or organization.
but oh wait…. your leader left because of ethical problems with your company??? OMG please… if you know of a squeaky clean company and officers please oh please tell us about it would ya?
from Amway to Nu-Skin, Sunrider to Herbal Life and just about every company in between, but know this, no matter what dirt you think an MLM company is sweeping under the carpet, it is NOTHING compared to the dirt big corporations are sweeping under carpets hourly.
just remember WHY you are in this business, it is your dream, your goals, your life… if you got in this business because of your sponsor/leader, then by all means when they jump ship you go with them… if you got in this business for your goals your dreams and to build your legacy then build it, and stop worrying about what leader did what to whom, when and where.
you have no doubt heard the phrase, “take you out of the equation,” from many trainers, some of you may have even heard it from me and my trainings… i am shifting that focus and phasing that out of my trainings… you as much as your company’s products are the PRODUCT you must learn to become the leader you are looking for… if you cannot, then learn to shift companies as often as your “idol leader” does.
if you are a true student of this business, then truly study randy and others like him and learn to do AS THEY DO. this business is a golden opportunity to create multiple streams of ETHICAL income… (and not that “JAZZ” about “mining the minors” B.S. we have been hearing so much about lately….) if you don’t see the writing on the wall then go to http://www.networkmarketingtimes.com and take a closer look!
Randy himself is a living testimony to the truly unlimited opportunity this industry has for the person who is WIDE awake and poised to take action and create six and seven figures a year or a month with or without a mlm company.
peace out!
Very well done Randy there is an old saying “When you play in the big leagues, you have big league challenges” Anyone with any sizeable 20,000 + organization have encountered leaders leaving and you have given great advice on how to deal with it.
Interesting topic Randy.
What is your opinion on network marketers who run multiple opportunities and although they are successful (depending on what you measure as successful), they keep on joining new businesses?
The leaders have that introduced me to the business 4 years ago seem to be doing this continuously. They’ve been in the business 20 odd years, keep analyzing compensation plans, jumping in with a few leaders and off to the next.
Seems to be a different game to play. But what’s your perspective on that?
George
This is so timely. Over the last two years we had a group of leaders that decided to develop their own way of structuring their organizations. They took a brilliant unilevel hybrid plan that was designed to build wide and then deep, keeping the power in the 1st 6 levels. They started streamlining, sponsoring and placing in a plan that they would definitely lose money when distributors that should be front-line to them ended up in the 9th or 10th level. Their checks were considerably smaller that those that followed the intent of the original plan. So, a year and a half ago the first started jumping….for sweetheart deals. They picked off some of my upline. When my mentor poached my own front-line distributor, well the excrement hit the fan. I know being orphaned, and without any support whatsoever. I also know that my downline looked like the Rapture had occurred and I was left behind. Then again, this year, the other half of the renegades who had been the originators of the adulteration of the plan, followed suit, with several starting their own Company. More poaching occurred, and now followed by nasty lawsuits. This was so avoidable. I don’t care if they want to go off and do their own thing…go! Do it! But if you do it wrong and the Company slaps your hand for breaking the policies and procedures, don’t do this: Start blogging libelous charges against your Company. Why do this? Who do you think this is going to hurt the most? Your fellow Distributors that choose…..read that word carefully now…..choose to stay with that Company. They are not going to jump for you just because you write nasty blogs. But what is really going to happen is this: You’re are hurting their businesses. These are people you have worked with and made friends with. You are choosing to hinder their chances of success. You are also potentially harming your reputation…..forever. The internet is forever. I do not care if anyone leaves a Company for greener pastures. Follow the rules and if you break them, you need to take whats coming. Getting back at friends to hurt the Company….that just doesn’t fly in the long run.
Some great comments here guys. Great dialogue. Look for the next post and we’ll look at what has to happen from a leadership standpoint of the people that stay behind.
-RG
Well, I think it would be very disturbing when top leaders of one’s organization leave for another company. It would be prudent on my part to investigate the reason behind their departure. if if turns out that it’s just to satisfy their own selfish ambitions then I just have to go on and work hard to protect my team from falling prey to these “wolves”.
This means that everyone in this business should consider the business as his own not relying on the so called leaders but be sure of themselves that they are with a very reputable company.
if that is done, then whether leaders leave or stay will have nothing to do with their success. thanks Randy!
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