My experience? Letting people go is actually easy. It might be hard for a day and you genuinely feel bad but it's really not a hard thing to do. What's hard is

My experience? Letting people go is actually easy. It might be hard for a day and you genuinely feel bad but it's really not a hard thing to do. What's hard is putting in the effort to help someone out of the hole they are in. Giving official warnings is also easy (and often also not properly done, especially in small companies). Even giving people opportunities to perform better is easy. Really if you find any of the above hard you are a bad manager or kidding yourself. Now the really hard thing is to try and educate someone to be better at their job. Spend time and think and plan for them to be better and examine yourself if they don't achieve that. Now assume my perspective is somewhat correct. Does that article sound like great advice or someone justifying their self-interested actions? Again, this is just my perspective.