Leadership Strategy: Fire yourself

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I’ve been doing some writing and editing for this OPEN for Business blog recently, and today my friend Steve Dunlap fired off a new post about “firing yourself.” The concept is pretty basic to understand, but to summarize, every year — or hell, every quarter — get a bunch of people together and each one of you fires yourself. Talk about failures, talk about goals and targets you didn’t hit, and talk about why you should be removed. You don’t actually fire yourself — everyone still has a job at the end of the meeting — but it’s a rare foray into workplace transparency.

As Dunlap writes:

And what had been our reward? A strategy that could reasonably be described as “striving for less mediocrity through incremental improvement.” Unfortunately, this is the unspoken strategy of far too many organizations, dressed up in common platitudes of “taking it to the…

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