When is it time to fire an executive?

Sometimes when I’m mentoring an earlier-career founder/CEO, I cover a topic and think “I must have written a blog post about this, or a chapter of Startup CEO or CXO or Boards, in the past…” and then am shocked to discover later on that I haven’t. This topic is one of those topics, which came up in a recent conversation, and since sometimes the top-of-mind answer is the best one, I thought I’d…