Dale Dauten, The Corporate Curmudgeon, is one of my favorite columnists. And I just spent seven minutes watching his video called Don’t Fire an Employee Until You Watch This! Super stuff. Dauten talks about “de-hiring” rather than “firing,” constantly upgrading talent while using the rank-and-yank approach to performance management. Great lessons to be learned there, especially if you think the “fire the bottom 10 percent” approach is just a little too glib.

When you’re done watching the video, you can read one of my all-time favorite columns written by anyone, bar none: What the Human Resources Department Won’t Tell You. Over the course of time, I’ve probably quoted The Corporate Curmudgeon’s “bad boss syndrome” to a thousand people. Some ideas have legs. Or I need some new stories.

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