Getting the right people matters less than putting them in the right roles. A competent hire in the wrong seat underperforms, but moving them to fit their strengths can unlock potential. If they still don't fit, a respectful exit is better than keeping a C-team player on an A-team.
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Now, here's the rules of the game. When you have all these roles, you are trying to get the right people on the bus and then you're trying to get the right people in the right seats. Sometimes you hire the right people, but they're failing in a role. You try moving them somewhere else and they thrive. Sometimes you keep moving around. They're just not a fit. You kindly excuse them from the bus. Cody and I had a partner in Moses Lake. We drove in and we were going to visit a broker, and he is not a very talented broker, unfortunately. And when we introduced them, or we were about to introduce them, like, hey, just so you know, this guy's kind of our, like, he's kind of the C team. And he immediately just went, oh, I don't know if we need to do this meeting then. I played select soccer. I only play A. And I was like, while that seems a little bit mean sometimes, it's true. You can't have an A team with a bunch of C players. It's impossible. You're trying to figure out with the salary cap that I have, how do I recruit the best possible team?