Trying to say «we value you» while there are deliberations about
letting people go is a blatant example of insincerity.
Letting people go is never fun, so don't hire anyone unless you have a necessary role to fill.
The stories in
Let My People Go are not for one people, at one time, in one place.
Not exact matches
Sure, if you run a retail or service business, there
's no way to chuck employee schedules, but if your team
is doing office - based work, you might consider tossing your set hours and
letting your
people come and
go as they please.
Bill George writes in «Finding Your True North,» «Rather than
letting the expectations of others guide you, you must
be prepared to
be your own
person and
go your own way.»
Today I
'm listening to
Let My
People Go Surfing, by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard.
I believe it
's more about showing
people what they
're capable of, mapping that to your company
's direction and then
letting them
go to work.
Smart
people are unwilling to
be bogged down unnecessarily by others» mistakes, so they
let them
go quickly and
are assertive in protecting themselves from future harm.
The hardest decision you make as a CEO
is to
let people go, but that
's my job.
«We
're going to
let people download their favorite saved messages on an MP3 format, instead of shutting down and saying «Goodbye everyone, thanks» — we felt that
was the most compelling way to underline the emotional mission we've always had when building Cord.»
People won't refer you if they feel you
're going to
let them down.
Now
let me give you three things that say that
's not true: If you ate a lot of vegetables and fruit, you probably aren't
going to gain weight; No. 2, if you work out like crazy, you
're probably not
going to gain weight; and No. 3,
people who I've learned to really hate,
people who have very fortunate, fast metabolism, aren't
going to gain weight.
This need to
let go a little and
let your
people do their jobs isn't ever easy for anal - retentive entrepreneurs — which I guess may
be oxymoronic.
There will
be smaller companies that will
be forced to
let people go, says Hirsch.
Going into a meeting without first
letting people know about its scope will only result in sub-optimized decisions and endless questions that should've
been answered beforehand.
If your company has to
let people go, spend a lot of time thinking about who it should
be.
«If
people say mean things to me, I
let them know if they talk to me like that I
'm going to walk away or hang up the phone,» she says.
It may mean the deal becomes something else, like «I have to secure myself, so
let me make it just a loan or a convertible note, or whatever, because I don't know what this
person's going to do.»
She
's got me thinking about how lonely it
is,
letting go of
people.
For a smaller staff, the act of properly
letting go of an employee isn't limited to a single, private conversation with the
person leaving, but must also include a discussion with the remaining team members.
His book, «
Let My
People Go Surfing,»
is a kind of living will and testament to his wishes for the running of his company when he
is no longer at full capacity.
Unit affected: Someone inside the firm tells us that some big names
were cut, he knew of ~ 5, and for every big trader
let go, it means 10
people in the back - office left
Sometimes, I will
let people know that «we
are never
going to do that.
Do you have what it takes to
let go of
people who aren't working out?
So
let's dump paradigm shifts for now and simply tell
people that we
are going to
be looking at our businesses in entirely different ways.
While you
're going to get a certain percentage of
people asking you to remind them how you know them before they
let you into their network, the majority of your email contacts who use LinkedIn will give you the green light.
While everyone will respect the
person who
is late for a connecting flight, just ask and we'll
let you
go ahead.
Well
let's
be honest, unless you
are a desperate seller and you have complete confidence in the
person buying your business, it
is not
going to happen.
Letting go of control and delegating efficiently
is a huge trick of productive
people.
If you just keep those
people instead of eliminating the logical positions, you'll find the
people you
let go are far angrier at you than they would
be if you'd
been fair.
Secondly, we
are here to facilitate the customer's goals, so we
are not there just to sweep the floor, we
are here to create stories, and do it through
people empowerment, and
let me
go back to it in a little bit.
But, he
went on, «I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would
let the American
people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they
're duty bound to do directly.»
Let's face it, if Walmart founder Sam Walton had told the world early on that he
was going to build a multibillion - dollar industry,
people would have probably ignored him.
People familiar with the situation say Mike told Winkler he believed in him; he wasn't
going to
let anyone push him out.
Let your
people know what
is going on and they'll respect you and
be able to plan their lives accordingly.
That means you
are doing this
person a service by
letting them
go find the place where they
are a fit.
The statement
is usually best when it comes from the responsible party at your company, or, if they
were let go due to the incident, the
person's supervisor.
Most of the
people let go from Tesla so far have
been from its motors business, said
people familiar with the matter.
It
's painful and it
's hard, and it really, really stinks to
let someone you may like as a
person go.
One of Citadel's top equity investors
was let go from the firm, according to two
people with knowledge of the matter.
I have sat in restaurants and had
people who I
am sitting with, when
people come over to talk to me, they say, «Come on, we
're eating dinner here»... and I
let it
go for a while and then I turn to that
person or those
people and I say the following sentence: «How do you think we got this table?
But I think if you
go into something new with an open mind, and you
let people around you know what you don't know, for the most part they
're going to link arms with you.
We
are saying goodbye to many talented
people today that have helped build the company to this point, and it
is through no fault of their own that we have to
let them
go.
Infographics have long
been a content marketer's staple, but
let's face it, any content that requires viewers to pinch, zoom, and pan
is going to turn
people off.
The reasons
are understandable — a billion - dollar payday for Instagram, for example, tends to get investors» attention — but
let's face it: another Facebook camera app
is not
going to save
people's health, or restore American competitiveness, or life ur standard of living or quality of life.
«Don't
go too far with the eye contact though — if you lock on and don't
let go,
people will likely assume you
're psychopathic,» the post explains.
It will
be hard to
let people go.
One of the reasons for that
is that some
people let success
go to their heads.
Any
person close to us will say we have had no shortage of miracles and most startups that really make it far have similar stories; years where founders did contract work, or full teams
were let go.
«The mindset of a lot of
people is that it
's either pollution or jobs, and you have to
let an economy
go through this stage of
being dirty until you can clean it up later,» says Fuller.