Don’t hire for the sake of hiring, because they’re a great asset or planning for the future.
As being small and lean offers numerous advantages like honest, personal communication, being less public and making quick decisions.
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When you do hire, think about their experiences, as that is their employability.
Reference
Fried, Jason, and David Heinemeier Hansson. Rework. 1st ed, Crown Business, 2010.
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When you hire someone, it should only be to solve an acute problem that is causing your company immense pain.
— ^0d80ed from Rework
Keeping your team lean for as long as possible will force you to adopt time-saving practices and an efficiency ethos, whereas hiring unnecessary people, no matter how great they are, will just lead to frustration and the creation of unimportant, artificial work to keep them busy.
— ^bd9b41 from Rework