The hire started in March. The capacity arrived in October.

Most hiring plans quietly assume a new person is useful from day one, and the gap between start date and real capacity is where growth plans tend to break.

By Steve 5 min read
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A hiring decision usually gets approved on two precise numbers: a salary and a start date. Neither describes what the business has actually bought. What it has bought is a capacity curve: a period during which the new person consumes more than they produce, followed by a period in which they produce more than they cost. The shape of that curve is rarely estimated, almost never measured, and yet it governs whether a growth plan lands on time or six months late. The consequence is a familiar pattern. A team…

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