jar offers a rubric of business:
The rule of sixes and nines.
Nines tend to hire those folk who might be able to do the job better than the person doing the hiring as their assistants and then train them to replace the hiring party so that person can move on to a new challenge.
Sixes though only hire those people who do not pose a threat.
Well, if a 6 turned out to be a 9, I don't mind....- Jimi Hendrix
- xongsmith, 5.7d