I was at a Santa Monica Chamber event recently, meeting people for the first time, when someone said, half-jokingly, “Oh — you’re the guy they bring in to fire people.” I hear some version of that more often than you’d expect. I usually answer the same way. Sometimes people do get let go. But that’s rarely why I’m brought in. There’s one story I think about a lot when this comes up. A business owner once told me he wanted me to fire a senior employee. He was decisive about it. His reasoning…
