There are a lot of reasons why we get canned. And, most of the time, we spend an inexorable amount of time defending ourselves as to why we were wronged.
Most of the time, our firing was justified (but, of course, never mine...LOL).
The CEO of Groupon was fired the other day after shares of the company had tumbled 24% on news that it had missed its quarterly earnings expectations. That outsiders' expectations should determine a company's management philosophy amazes me...but that's a rant for another day.
Andrew Mason's letter to his employees was, as my friend Harvey Briggs wrote, the perfect mix of humility and hubris.
When you wallow in self-defense, you doom yourself to a life in the gutters.
In taking responsibility, you set yourself up for the next grand adventure.
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