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Cash-flow businessPut a weekly cost on feeling overwhelmed
The article lays out a seven-step process for hiring. The first step is to find the real bottleneck behind feeling overwhelmed and put a number on what it costs each week, and it says that if you cannot answer clearly you are not ready to hire.
“"We're overwhelmed" isn't a problem, it's a symptom.”— Contrarian Thinking, How to hire (and keep) A-players, Jul 2026
Do this
Name the one task that overwhelms you most and write down its weekly cost in dollars before you post any job.