Growing lettuce and other greens from seeds is an odd exercise.
The seeds are super small, and a $2 package contains hundreds of them.
You plant the seeds by gently filtering them through your fingers onto the ground, and then, carefully cover them with just one-fourth inch of soil.
Amazingly, they sprout in a few days, and dozens of new plants come up in close proximity.
At this point, the plants must be thinned to allow the strong ones to take root and grow into a harvest.
In the end, only a few plants make it. But what those plants produce is remarkable.
Wise hiring managers know that this is also the cadence of hiring.
You need to plant a lot of seeds, and then thin out the unqualified prospects and weak new hires to allow the strong ones to create something remarkable.
It’s the natural part of the hiring process that cannot be avoided.
It’s foolish to think a great harvest can be achieved by not planting or planting less and hoping the few you do plant will become the winners.
As Stephen Covey once said: Most businesses operate by the law of the farm.
And they have skillful gardeners managing them.
