Fire Someone Today: And Other Surprising Tactics for Making Your Business a Success

Written by Bob Pritchett

Narrated by Van Tracy

A breakthrough for business owners and entrepreneurs of small to large businesses and companies looking to achieve more success.

Whether you are a young company that's just starting out or a mature business looking to grow, business entrepreneur Bob Pritchett gives hands-on advice and practical examples that are a must-listen for every manager, business owner, and entrepreneur.

You will not find Thirteen Incontrovertible Laws of Excellence. You won't find motivational clichés to frame and put on your desk. There are no step-by-step instructions for writing a business plan.

In Fire Someone Today, you will find:

• What Pritchett has discovered through his years of experience as an entrepreneur and small-business owner.
• Practical and tested advice for leaders seeking to better their company.
• Strategic tools and tips that will help your business be more successful.

Fire Someone Today is a book about what to do, what not to do, and why. For your business, it could be that one piece of advice that makes all the difference, and even give you a few laughs along the way.

Diagrams are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
• Release date: Apr 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781401607081

Reviews for Fire Someone Today

[shawnd_72 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

"[Entrepreneurship] is often a hard, lonely, and frightening responsibility". It's great to read something from a real do-er, a CEO who's done it. From the start you get the idea that this is not a high-flying venture capital stooge with aspirations to be a motivational speaker, but a regular Joe who wants to be profitable, even if that means some might call it a 'lifestyle' (read: unprofitable growth business) business. Within paragraphs the author gets to the nitty gritty, outlining the six kinds of poor performers, how to identify them, and moves on to getting rid of them. This general philosophy is in keeping with Jack Welch's practice of getting rid of the bottom 10% of staff each year or so. His other-as the title states-surprising techniques are out of the ordinary--you'll hear them from CEOs in lunchtime talk, but not in business books. They all have to do with the bad news of business: that your staff's desires can be fundamentally at odds with yours, and you have to maintain a focus on you, that 'there can only be one': that partners leave the business eventually (or you do). As a CEO, I can't say enough about this book. It lists all the mistakes a founder-CEO makes, or many of the most common ones. The author keeps it focused with little rambling, and some inspiration.

[bizcoach_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's a great combination of practical tips for running your company plus useful stories from someone who's been there. And no bullshit.Guy Kawasaki said it best in his review "A year's worth of lunches with someone who has been way down the road and taken a lot of lumps."