“A new servant can catch a running deer” is a proverb from Afghanistan that aptly describes those zealous recent hires. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Afghan Proverb for New Hires”
Grant, I have a proverb from Afghanistan that I really like. I think you’ll appreciate this.
A new servant can catch a running deer. A new servant can catch a running deer. What does that mean? Are they going to try harder? Yeah, I think it means you hire somebody and that’s the person in the office who’s going to work so hard to make themselves useful and assure that you made a good hire.
Very good.
A new servant can catch a running deer, suggesting that the old servants are slow.
Yeah.
Laggards.
Yeah, or that you’re just going to be on your best game, at least for a while when you first get hired.
I can use that.
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