There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.

When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.