Nick Bare

Do they fit in?

Do they vibe with the team?

Can they hold conversations?

Are they collaborative?

You have to have a strong chemistry amongst the people to have a strong culture and organization.

Competency, character, chemistry.

The three C's.

And like I said, sometimes you won't know if you made the right hire until months later.

We have hired people before who on paper, absolutely perfect.

And they passed the competency, the character, and the chemistry test during the hiring process.

And even for those first couple of weeks and then months, but then something changes.

Oftentimes, not all the time, but in our case, it's been pretty rare that we've experienced this, but true character is exposed over time with how people handle success and failure when they're hungry and fed, strong and weak, rested and tired, tested and tempted.

Let's take this back to ranger school a little bit.

When I was going through ranger school,

In the beginning of that course, everyone was ambitious, was driven, could work through hard challenges, could meet the physical requirements.

Tough, tough individuals.

But the longer that school and that course went on, people became hungrier, more tired, desperate.

restless, true character started to become exposed with certain people.

We got to a point in the mountain and Florida phase of Ranger School, which is the second and third phase, where each phase begins with a week of techniques, teaching you the skills and the tactical requirements in which you will be evaluated on when you go into the field.

And then after that first week of techniques, you go into your field training where you are evaluated based off of your ability to execute a mission within the leadership position that you are given.