Levchin: Doubts about a team member's integrity are almost always justified
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Max Levchin, founder of Affirm and co-founder of PayPal, discusses key leadership lessons learned after hesitating to fire a high-performing manager whose integrity he doubted.
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“Whenever there's doubts, there's no doubt. Learned that one the hard way probably more than one time. But anytime you're doubting the integrity of someone very close to you, it's almost certainly the case that That doubt isn't without basis, and you need to act upon it, or at least confront the person and tell them, look, I'm having a real problem with the way the situation is unfolding here.”
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