... to all the usual suspects: the mis-hire’s compensation and cost of maintenance, the initial hiring cost, severance expenses, the costs associated with hiring and training a replacement, and so ... competent people. When excellent managers and great employees are hired, the opposite prevails Thus, hiring managers have a powerful obligation to their company and to themselves to treat hiring with the ... attention and to be as deliberate as possible in identifying and engaging the best possible people David Oglivy summed up the importance of careful hiring when he wrote, “If each of us hires people...