“What to Do When You’re Confused” from BusinessMadeSimple.com
Midway through my career I noticed that the hardest choices I had to make always involved people:
- Closing down an unprofitable division and laying off hard working employees
- Firing a highly effective manager whose style of management was contrary to the company culture
- Firing an ineffective manager that everyone loved
- Giving up on a protege after trying for months or years to help him/her succeed
- Negotiating an ongoing dispute between two key employees
- Dealing with an important client whose expectations are unrealistic
- Supporting a foundering business populated with potentially superstar employees
- Negotiating hard with a colleague who’s also a friend
- Reducing budgets when necessary but that negatively impact people
- etc.
What I typically do is anguish over these decisions until someone talks sense into me. In this short Business Made Simple video Donald Miller makes that point.
