I came specifically to the comments for this. Yes, great comment from your side as I disagreed with the fire mentality of the article.
Even if sometimes people need to get fired, I’d say it is more important to make a good hire upfront and normally these people should be very capable and adapt to these dynamic environments.
Just firing on the quickest difficulty says something about beeing rather a bad manager or not knowing how to hire / what to look for.
I’ve seen many incompetent managers firing their tech leader or program leaders just because it did not meet the set arbitrary delivery goals. By firing them it only reinforced the managing-by-fear way of working and lead to a cover-you-a* mentality that things just became even slower...
Thanks for your comment and I wish there were more managers like you!
Even if sometimes people need to get fired, I’d say it is more important to make a good hire upfront and normally these people should be very capable and adapt to these dynamic environments. Just firing on the quickest difficulty says something about beeing rather a bad manager or not knowing how to hire / what to look for.
I’ve seen many incompetent managers firing their tech leader or program leaders just because it did not meet the set arbitrary delivery goals. By firing them it only reinforced the managing-by-fear way of working and lead to a cover-you-a* mentality that things just became even slower...
Thanks for your comment and I wish there were more managers like you!