Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

TWELVE

Fire the Incompetents

THE MOST STRESSFUL job in management is firing an employee. The second most stressful job in management is being fired yourself. But if you don't get some experience with the first job, you are going to get some experience with the second.

A manager who hires an incompetent person is himself incompetent. A manager who keeps an incompetent person in place is even more incompetent. The longer you keep the wrong person in a job, the more incompetent you look to everybody around you. You look incompetent to your superiors, your peers, and your subordinates. Keeping the wrong person in place demoralizes your staff members. They conclude that if an incompetent person gets paid the same as they do, and receives ...