I understand your point, but if there aren’t subordinate leaders below the CEO who can perform this function, I suspect they have organizational structure probl

I understand your point, but if there aren’t subordinate leaders below the CEO who can perform this function, I suspect they have organizational structure problems. I believe a good approach would be to have those first line leaders (who actually have that relationship built with their subordinates) break the bad news and then the CEO speak to everybody and own the decision.