Enforce functional training by withholding new employee requisitions. As Andy Grove writes, there are only two ways for a manager to improve the outp… - Ben Horowitz

there are only two ways for a manager to improve the output of an employee: motivation and training.

Ironically, the key to an emotional discussion is to take the emotion out of it.

People at McDonald’s get trained for their positions, but people with far more complicated jobs don’t. It makes no sense. Would you want to stand on the line of the untrained person at McDonald’s? Would you want to use the software written by the engineer who was never told how the rest of the code worked? A lot of companies think their employees are so smart that they require no training. That’s silly. When I first became a manager,

You hired for scale too soon. The most consistently wrong advice that venture capitalists and executive recruiters give CEOs is to hire someone “bigger” than required. “Think about the next three to five years and how you will be a large company” is how the bad advice usually sounds.