Personnel Evaluation Quotes

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

I have a knack - and still do - where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that.

You always catch the wrong players.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.