Execution and Result are not independent things. Firing someone in a professional, mature, tactful way is a different thing than what the CEO did. They're not j

Execution and Result are not independent things. Firing someone in a professional, mature, tactful way is a different thing than what the CEO did. They're not just different styles: the firing of a person is an act intended to have a particular business outcome, and those different routes will have different outcomes. To quote Steven Brust, "The relationship between ends and means isn't one of justification, it's one of proscription."