How to make layoffs less awful

Principles for being involved in disruptive and difficult change

Photo by Kai Wenzel on Unsplash

One of the questions I got after writing my opinion on the cultural and leadership failure that is the layoff process at Google was to ask me what I would have done differently. I’m going to reiterate this now before I start because it’s important — there is no good way to do this process. For someone in a leadership position all you can do is…