Playbook · Hiring
Making the next-hire decision with evidence.
Most small-firm hiring decisions get made on the loudest signal in the room: a partner's tired, an offer comes in, someone visible quits. The version that works picks the next hire from three weeks of evidence — what's actually breaking — rather than from gut feel.
7 min readUpdated April 2026Members only
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