Don't Hire on Potential and Expect a Four Year Runway

Expect a four year runway. This comes actually from Bob Beale and Bob Beale has been in the consulting for profit companies as well as Christian nonprofits and churches for 40 to 50 years. And he said it applies to a person, if they were vice president of IBM or vice president of Coca-Cola and they became the president, it would take them four years to learn the job. So again, that's the second principle, all right. Don't hire on potential alone. The third I learned from a very wise consultant and I actually was very resistant to accept it until I learned the hard way that it was true. But again, it was a long process and it's worth