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How to lead through necessary harm

I have to lay off fifteen people next week and I keep thinking about their mortgages and kids while knowing this is the only way to save the company.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes moral leadership requires inflicting immediate pain to prevent greater suffering, creating an unbearable tension between compassion and duty.

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