Aren’t they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?†“Yes,†he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him,“ and I’m worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you’ll wind up making out with him, too.†“ Don’t be sexist. They could find me a female instructor.†“In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"
Hiring has been a gradual process. We only hire someone when we really need them. It takes a while to get people up to speed. Our rule of thumb is to only hire when absolutely necessary.