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The art of letting people go. How do you do it?

Steve Bridger

"It's a business constant", says Martha Lane Fox in her latest post here...

https://martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/its-the-worst-thing-you-probably

Martha outlines her four basic rules to avoid "the disaster of [her] first sacking".

Be quick, be clear, be creative and be kind.

How do you do it? 

Hopefully not like RE: P&O Ferries - wholesale 'fire and rehire' 

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  • Just musing on the time I was made redundant, and how badly it was handled by my CEO (who really didn't have the people skills he thought he had). Though by all reasonable measures it did me a lot of favours, I still reflect on how hurt and angry I was about the way that it was managed.

    As a piece of professional development, it gave me a much deeper understanding of how a person's self-identity as a professional at work can be damaged by treatment that underlines just how transactional your contribution was deemed to be.

    I agree with each of those rules, but would add in the light of my experience - don't just barge an idea about making a person redundant into a conversation with them, without actually thinking it through first. :-)
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  • Just musing on the time I was made redundant, and how badly it was handled by my CEO (who really didn't have the people skills he thought he had). Though by all reasonable measures it did me a lot of favours, I still reflect on how hurt and angry I was about the way that it was managed.

    As a piece of professional development, it gave me a much deeper understanding of how a person's self-identity as a professional at work can be damaged by treatment that underlines just how transactional your contribution was deemed to be.

    I agree with each of those rules, but would add in the light of my experience - don't just barge an idea about making a person redundant into a conversation with them, without actually thinking it through first. :-)
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