We’ve let go of half a dozen employees and kept only as many Wowzers. Firing every-other person you hire? Leaders should be ok to break big-problems down into

We’ve let go of half a dozen employees and kept only as many Wowzers. Firing every-other person you hire? Leaders should be ok to break big-problems down into simple ones, with the purpose of expanding the funnel of people who can be effective at solving the problems. This is the basis of leveraging resources. While it's legitimate to require a threshold tests of quality for building a team, a failure rate is this high with onboarding staff indicates something else is a problem. Imagine any sports team who mistakes talent at this percentage? While the players may get traded, the coach would be likely getting fired. There has to be more to the story? A true artist never complains about his tools.