The Simplicity of Hiring & Firing
Pursue the best! Weed out the rest!
— Tom Peters!
You can try to make it more complicated. You can dress it up, drag it out, or blame politics for why you don’t pull the trigger. But no matter what, almost everything your organization does is carried out by people. And if you don’t have the right people on the team, you’re not going to accomplish much of anything beyond maintenance of the status quo.
And that ain’t much.