ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Agreed, the waters are not easy to navigate. The concern here for me, as much as cost, is time. The days of screening multiple candidates, whitting that list down to a couple finalists, interviewing and vetting them thoroughly before you make a decision and present an offer are dead. These deals are getting finalized in record speed now. Going down the rabbit hole with a candidate you don't have a realistic chance of catching by the tail is not appealing to me. You can call that aiming low if you like, I call it managing expectations. And with the latter, we can still hire a a very good coach/staff.
Whitman stepped up to the plate and socked it out of the park on Lovie and Underwood, in terms of closing the deal on a high-dollar, high-status hire quickly and quietly.
I trust his eye for the marketplace. I wouldn't have thought either of his hires were possible going in. The place my trust has dwindled a bit, and where I hope he has done some learning and re-thinking, is in his vision and leadership and management of the programs.