After the firing, talk to your team about the process, the reasoning, and the implications for them (within the limits of confidentiality).

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Keynes did not come to his rejections of the Classical view via some process of disinterested economic reasoning.

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However, your thought process is fundamentally flawed in its use of backwards, inductive reasoning, a form of logical progression that has been criticized since the Roman Empire.

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