Why You have to make controversial Fires sometimes as a leader

Hoover’s leadership style was erratic at times. He regularly fired Bureau agents, singling out those who he thought “looked foolish like truck drivers” or were “pinheads.” . He also assigned disgruntled agents to career-ending duties and places. Melvin Purvis was a prime example: Purvis was one of the most effective agents in arresting and breaking up 1930s gangs, and it’s claimed that Hoover pushed him out of the Bureau because he was envious of Purvis’s widespread public fame.