I knew an old pastor that used to say:

Any ship, regardless of where it’s going or how it wants to get there, sails faster without dead weight.

This is so very, very true in any business or organizational setting.  Dead weight slows you down.  Dead weight interferes with navigating your ship through choppy waters.  Dead weight makes it harder to change course when needed.  The moral of this post?  Don’t allow you or your business or your organization to be slowed down or hampered by dead weight.

Dead weight comes in many different shapes and sizes.  Dead weight is anything that slows you down on your journey.  Dead weight can be a friend or someone you get along with.  Dead weight might have even helped you build the ship.  If they’re slowing you down however, then it’s time to start cleaning house and tossing things overboard.  If you want your ship to sail through any type of weather, provide safe passage to wherever it is that you are going, and be able to change course when needed, you have to lighten your load.  Why be happy with mediocrity?  Why be happy with just getting by or barely meeting your goals?  Ditch the dead weight!  In the long run, it’s better for the journey.