[d2]

This is right on - particularly the part about you screwing up the hiring process, not the exec being at fault. I made assumptions about a level of professionalism that I never assessed properly. I went through this a year+ ago and I hired the wrong guy. Unfortunately he took the legal language in emails during the termination process personally - another symptom of the root cause for which he was fired.

[lsc]

>This is right on - particularly the part about you screwing up the hiring process

really, I think this attitude is the best way to look at it when you have to fire anyone, executive or not.

[davidw]

Yes and no - it's a case of asymmetric information, and while you can do your best to obtain more information (hiring process), you can't know exactly how a person will perform until they're actually there.

[lsc]

I said it was the best attitude for an employer to take, not that it was 100% the employers fault.