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> Get rid of those staff who believe doing everything you can for the company is all that matters

Typically this is impossible, because those staff are the top management. (I'd say "leadership" if they were actually that.)

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If they're too far up to fire, maybe round up everybody who matters and explain to the shareholders that you're all going to quit and form a competing company unless they choose new leadership.

If they don't comply, make good on your threat.

Of course, high enough up that is true, however there are always those middle management evangelists who have believed the word from the CEO and chosen that their workers should follow their lead.

Sure, and if the top management changed their approach, so would this middle layer. A fish rots from the head down.

Someone who won't say no and follows orders blindly is harder to work with than someone with unrealistic expectations and ideas. The latter is easier to deal with than the former in my view.

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