The 15 Minute Mile Concept with Tyson Mutrux 

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Are you looking for a quick hack to measure performance? In this episode of the Maximum Lawyer Podcast, Tyson introduces the "15 Minute Mile Concept" as a metaphor for evaluating employee performance. 

The 15 Minute Mile Concept can be used to determine if an employee’s performance has improved and if so, if they are still a good fit for your team. It is important to not consider a slight improvement enough to keep someone on a team if there are still other aspects that are not great. Tyson shares the importance of looking at aspects of your life where you only highlight one good thing but ignore other areas. It is important to take the time to work on areas of your day to day life that need improvement, both professionally and personally.

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Episode Highlights:

• 00:24 The metaphor of the "15 Minute Mile"
• 2:13 How slight improvement doesn't equate to meeting performance standards
• 3:13 The danger of exaggerating small performance improvements  

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Transcripts: The 15 Minute Mile Concept with Tyson Mutrux 

Tyson (00:01.144)
Welcome back everybody to another Saturday episode. This is Tyson Mutrix. Today I want to talk to you about just a concept that kind of popped into my brain in the middle of one of these hot seat, actually I don't know if my mic was close enough to be honest with you. Testing, testing. Welcome everybody to another Saturday episode of the Maximum Lower Podcast. This is Tyson Mutrix. And today I want to talk to you about

idea that kind of popped into my brain as we were in the middle of this hot seat and I'll call it the 15 -minute mile concept and so I We can't talk about the details of What we talk about in the hot seat, so I'm gonna I'm gonna make up another scenario so let's say that You're you're considering an employee terminating an employee, okay,

This is a different scenario than what we talked about on the hot seat with this guild member. so let's say you're considering terminating this employee. But before I get to that, so that's kind of the setup of what we're going to talk about. I want you to think about the, actually, I'm going to restart this whole section.

Tyson (01:27.575)
camera where I did

Tyson (01:33.486)
All right, so let's say that you are considering terminating an employee. right, so let's call her Susie. So Susie has been performing badly for quite some time, okay, not doing great. And then all of a sudden you see that there's a bump in her performance. She's still well below average, but she's improving, right? So you're thinking, you know what? Susie might be on the way

Susie might be on the way up, we should give her another try. She kinda stays at that for a while, but you're thinking, hey, she improved, she's good. And so I kinda think about it like this, right? For anyone that doesn't know about running a mile, I'd say a decent time is probably eight minutes. And I'm talking about for

people that run on regular basis. Like really, really good is like six minutes. Like there's like the four minute mile. Those are like elite runners kind of a thing. But 18 minutes is pretty bad. Okay, so let's say that you've got this person. Let's call the person Suzy. All right, let's say Suzy runs an 18 minute mile regularly. All right, and.

all of a sudden she starts running a 15 minute mile. That's a pretty good improvement, right? From 18 minutes to 15 minutes. So that sounds great when you're talking about the improvement. But the reality is is that Susie's still running a 15 minute mile and she's terrible. You wouldn't put her on your track team. You would not put her on your track team because she's absolutely terrible. She's running a 15 minute freaking mile. That's bad still. That's really, really bad. And

Sometimes I think what we do is sometimes our employees are running an 18 minute mile and then all of a sudden they run a 15 minute mile. And this could be anything you can think of, doesn't that be employees, where you see a slight improvement? So you see a slight improvement and what you do in your mind is you exaggerate that improvement to think it is this massive improvement. In reality, it's still bad. Suzy's still

Tyson (03:56.558)
Susie should no longer be in your firm, but what you've done is you've exaggerated the improvement and in your head, she's good now. But in reality, Susie's still bad. Susie is still running a 15 -minute mile and Susie should not be on the track team. So that's the concept of the 15 -minute mile. Think about all the other things, other areas in your life where maybe you've done that, where you've seen a slight improvement. You then ignore all the bad and you think, oh, we're good.

Look at those areas, see if you can improve in those areas, see if there's things you can stop doing, and maybe that'll help you out. But that's all have here for you today. I wanna remind you to make sure you shoot me a text, love to hear from you, always do. It's great to hear the feedback you're giving me. It helps me shape the episodes that we're doing. So make sure you keep them coming because that's how I know what to do. If you don't like something, that's probably more important than if you do like something.

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