Welcome to Manager Tools.

This week, a special cast, the Corky Story in multiple parts.

Part one, here we go.

Folks, this cast is about managing people and about how difficult it is, how difficult everybody

says it is to fire people, but how really it isn't if you're a manager tools manager.

And you're going to learn how to manage people effectively by coming to our effective manager conference.

We encourage you to come to the website.

Learn more.

Go to the forums and ask from the people who have actually been whether or not they recommend it.

I suspect you'll find they will. So Danny we've been talking about this

cast for a couple of years now and this is your story about how you fired

someone named Corky who worked for you at the

American Cancer Society where you were an executive and you've probably told

this at every conference I've been to where we jointly presented which is not that many

but I assume you tell it most every time you're presenting at grown as well.

I do I do yeah.

Folks we hear all the time that you can't fire anybody around here.

I have actually fired many people and it's no fun, but it's a real thing.

Sometimes you have to do the unthinkable and terminate somebody simply

because their performance is not acceptable. A lot of managers mistakenly believe it can't be done.

There's good reason for that and rather than do a typical cast where we tell you

exactly how, we thought in a rare departure from the manager tools format and we figure if we

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