India, May 19 -- The Noida-based founder and CEO of InstaAstro has revealed that he once fired a senior employee --- simply because the employee asked him, "Sir, tell me what to do next." Nitin Verma said the incident reshaped his understanding of ownership in the workplace and what leadership truly means for senior professionals.

In a polarising post shared on LinkedIn, Verma said that the employee had been brought in specifically so that he would no longer need to oversee that particular company function himself.

"I fired someone because he asked me, 'Sir tell me what to do next.' A senior hire. Someone I brought in specifically because I didn't want to think for that function anymore," the founder and CEO of InstaAstro said on Linked...