1. You never truly know what you have until someone starts to work for you.
2. Don’t beat yourself up over bad hires. Learn but don’t get gun shy. You need to build teams.
3. Reliability is foundational.
4. You can have all the talent in the world but if not reliable it doesn’t work.
5. Once you find something is fundamentally wrong with a hire, you likely need to move forward with going different ways.