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.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Leadership is hard to train on.

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.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.