THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN to address two of the most important issues that government managers will ever have to face: how to hire and fire a government employee. Neither of these is easy, but in all probability, you will need to do both in order to succeed. Most likely, you will hire far more employees than you will fire—if not, something is definitely wrong. After all, if you spend most of your time correcting bad hiring decisions, what does that say about your hiring process? Moreover, you will find yourself devoting far too much of your precious time looking for ways to get rid of bad employees instead of performing your day-to-day job responsibilities.