The hire cost a salary. The capacity came out of your best person.

Adding a person to a stretched team reliably makes the team slower before it makes it faster, and the bill lands somewhere the accounts never show it.

By Steve 5 min read
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A firm wins more work than it can deliver, so it hires. The offer is signed, payroll goes up, and everyone waits for the relief. Instead, delivery gets slower for a quarter. Utilisation on the senior team dips. A couple of dates slip. Nobody can point to a single cause, and by the time output recovers the hire has been absorbed into the story as a success: which, eventually, it was. What happened in between is entirely predictable, and it is almost never in the hiring case. Two curves, moving…

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