The Truth About Hiring the Best

Truth 44Too many cooks might improve the broth

You've heard it a million times before: too many cooks spoil the broth. And you know firsthand what a nuisance it can be to have a teeming multitude of people personally invested in a project. It often becomes unwieldy, chaotic, and impossible to make a decision. You've seen it time and time again in your many meetings, committees, and task forces. Too many people mean too little work, too much talk, and not nearly enough action.

So, you think, I'm going to make this employee selection decision on my own. I can make the decision more quickly; we can have the whole process behind us, with our new employee on board in no time.

But will this unilateral decision be a better decision? Maybe not.

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