National Hockey League coach Scotty Bowman won 9 Stanley Cups with three separate teams.
He has never been fired — every coaching job he left was either by his own decision or due to a transition into another role.
Not true of the typical NHL coach where 6-8 coaches are fired every year with the shortest tenure of all sports – about two-and-a-half to four years on average.
This is for my many friends in the radio industry who increasingly don’t have the luxury of job security.
They devoted their careers to entertaining and caring about audiences – tens of thousands of them have been fired since hedge funds took advantage of relaxation of radio station ownership rules.
But every one of the major consolidators has been through bankruptcy even following their predictable plan to fire people to cut costs and/or increase profits.
Industry after industry, being fired has more often been about the employer’s inability to understand how to run a company than the employees’ ability to help them.
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