I am tired. Very tired.
I run development groups in all parts of the world. Today I needed to make some extremely difficult and large cuts in one of my groups. I did not feel good about it.
A matter of fact, I feel horrible about it.
One of the people in the group impacted was a senior leader. He had a great set of skills, but one that was not suited for the go forward plan. When we told him that he would not have a place in the go forward organization, he took it very well. He did not agree, but he took it with fortitude, and even stuck around long enough so that the other people could be notified.
It would have been easier if he had gotten mad. His reaction made me choke-up enough that I couldn’t continue talking to the bigger group for a bit, and one of my senior people took over.
I told them that I can’t say that we did it perfectly.
I did tell them that we thought about it hard, and we did the best that we could.
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