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February 6, 2006
Why Fire Someone Today
So far, Fire Someone Today is proving to be a great title for a book. It catches attention and generates interest.
The downside is that without a closer look it appears to some people to be a one-subject book about management through intimidation. It is not.
Fire Someone Today is about clear thinking on practical business issues. Each of the 22 chapters is about a different subject; Fire Someone Today is just one of several chapters where the clear thinking is about making the right call when it is a tough call.
Of course, it is a lack of clear thinking that makes something a tough call in the first place. When we are thinking clearly the calls aren’t tough at all. More than 20 years ago Peter Drucker summed up the message of my first chapter more succinctly than I ever could:
“To keep misfits in jobs they cannot do is not being kind; it is being cruel.”*
Clear, isn't it?
*(Harvard Business Review, November 2005, p. 96, quoting HBR, July-August 1985)
Posted by Bob Pritchett at February 6, 2006 4:00 AM
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