MBA935 Q&A Wednesday: I had a lot of firings recently. Am I a horrible boss?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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It’s not you, it’s me. Or is it? It’s Q&A Wednesday, and we’ve got a tough question from a listener about an uncomfortable subject: firing. Almost every successful business has to let people go at one time or another. But after a few too many firings, is the real problem the employees, or the employer? If you’re even asking that question, we have good news — it’s probably not you. But it might be your hiring practices.

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, the business podcast that brings you business lessons
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0:50.5	Today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode. On our Q&A episodes, I answer a question from a
0:56.0	listener.
0:57.0	Today's question is, I've had a ton of firings recently.
1:00.6	Am I a horrible boss?
1:01.6	Oh man, I know how hard that could be.
1:04.0	How it forces you to ask that question and reflect upon your own management.
1:09.0	We're going to get into it. I'm going to talk about what a possible reasons why this is happening but right off the
1:14.2	bat the fact that you're asking this question means you care and that means you're not a
1:18.6	horrible boss. We all have room for improvement when it comes to management. We're going to find out why this happens. What are some of the reasons why sometimes we have this kind of run of bad fits? People that just don't fit into our company or what we need. Also, we're going to talk about is there any ways to
1:33.6	avoid it if so how. So let's get into it let's get down to business.
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