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Firing Employee
Joan Duggan was co-founder of a very successful company, which she later sold. She then worked in the corporate world for a while, but eventually gave almost all of her money away and founded an EoC-minded tutoring startup in upstate New York, which she helped manage for over 2 decades.
In this clip, Joan Duggan discusses how a board of directors set out to fire their credit manager for something he didn't know that he was supposed to do. Joan, taking a people-first approach to the situation, communicated with the employee instead of going forward with the board's decision, thus saving his job.
- How should a business balance prioritize for-profit decisions against those with treating employees fairly?
- Are companies responsible for developing and delegating work to their employees? Or should that fall on the responsibility of the employees themselves?
- In an EoC approach to business, how would an employee who doesn't know what they're doing wrong be treated or approached compared to a typical business?