Every founder knows the adage “hire slow, fire fast”, but very few know how to do it without scorching trust.

And, that’s on us. We don’t teach leaders how to hire and fire well – so far too many burn their entire company culture down trying to get it right.

This week, I’m sharing four principles for how to fire fast without killing your culture.

Great employees disengage months before they resign. The reason you keep getting blindsided is that you’re measuring the wrong things.

In this article, we discuss the strategic shift early-stage founders need to make — before they hire the wrong people, lose their best ones, or wonder why the team they built isn’t performing like they need it to.