With a pile of 300 résumés on his desk and a need to pick someone quickly, my boss told me to make calls on the bottom 50 and toss the rest.

 

 “Throw away 250 résumés?” I asked, shocked.

 

 “What if the best candidates are in there?”

 

 “You have a point,” he said.

 

“But then again, I don’t need people with bad luck here.”