The issue with saying I'm not going to hire someone if I can do their job given enough time is that time is a very valuable resource. Ideally you would be hirin

The issue with saying I'm not going to hire someone if I can do their job given enough time is that time is a very valuable resource. Ideally you would be hiring the best person on the planet with every hire but that is unreasonable and sometimes you just don't have enough man-hours in a company to be able to keep up with demand. Sometimes you need to make a hire in order to keep up the speed and if the only person available is good, but maybe not better then you would you still make the hire? I think both decisions have merit depending on situation.