Advice for When You Apply These Ideas

First, take a deep breath. Let it out slowly. Then another. Focus on the breath.

Terminating someone’s employment is never a fun thing to do, and no matter how many times you do it, it’s never easy. Nor should it ever become easy—those CEOs who lay off hundreds or thousands of people at a time can generally only do so because they’re either doing so “at a distance” (the people they are terminating are not ...