‘People and organization management is broken into “seeding, feeding, and weeding.” Seeding is the hiring of people into an organization with the goal of getting better and better people. Most managers spend too little time on the interview process and don’t aim high enough. Cultural and behavioral interviewing should be included when looking to seed new employees. Feeding is the development of people within an organization. We can never spend enough time giving good performance related feedback to our employees. Weeding is the elimination of underperforming people within an organization.’
—Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott, The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise.
