Season 6: Episode 144: Before You Hire Another Person, Look at the Work

Send us Fan Mail “We need another person.” Maybe you do. But before you add another salary to payroll, Sarah Beth Herman wants you to answer a different question: What exactly are you hiring them to do? In this episode of No Silver Spoons, Sarah Beth looks at something that happens quietly inside growing companies: work accumulates. Temporary responsibilities become permanent. Processes get duplicated. Great employees become the people everyone depends on. Eventually the team is overwhelmed—a...