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Hard Things — Decision Frameworks for the Calls Nobody Wants to Make

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# Hard Things — Decision Frameworks for the Calls Nobody Wants to Make

Firing people. Laying off teams. Pivoting when you've raised money on the old direction. Telling a co-founder it's over. Shutting down a product.

This isn't a framework for feeling better about hard calls. It's a framework for making them correctly.

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## Part 1: Firing

### When to Fire Someone

Most leaders wait too long. By the time they act, everyone else on the team already knows the problem person isn't working out

How to Use

Recommended: Install to project (local)

mkdir -p .claude/skills
curl -o .claude/skills/hard_things.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/main/c-level-advisor/executive-mentor/references/hard_things.md

Skill is scoped to this project only. Add .claude/skills/ to your .gitignoreif you don't want to commit it.

Alternative: Clone full repo

git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Then reference at c-level-advisor/executive-mentor/references/hard_things.md

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