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The Physics of Firing

Why Your Team is Secretly Praying You’ll Pull the Trigger

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Mirek Stanek
Apr 06, 2026
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As leaders, we face a unique challenge: we rarely see the immediate results of our work.

When we were individual contributors, our code produced rapid, tangible outcomes. But as leaders, the effects of our decisions—or our passivity—often take months to surface.

Behind the scenes of our daily management, we are constantly fighting two invisible, relentle…

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