A Step-by-Step Guide To Firing Someone - Harvard Business Review

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by Dick Grote

February 17, 2016
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Years ago I heard the statement, “Discharge is the capital punishment of organizational life.” What nonsense! If our metaphor for termination is capital punishment, no wonder organizations and their managers are so hesitant to fire a poor performer.

Dick Grote is a management consultant in Dallas, Texas, and the author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, published by the Harvard Business Review Press.
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