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'When you get fired it sticks with you': Jeff Goodby on the hardest part of his job
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Jeff Goodby, the chairman at Goodby Silverstein and Partners, has built a storied career in advertising. Goodby founded the agency along with Rich Silverstein, who he met at Ogilvy in the early 1980s. The agency has grown, kept growing, and more recently shrunk way down. On this week’s Starting Out, Goodby reflects on what it means to fire people.