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This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players." [1] Results will vary by who is hiring. [1] http://www.folklore.org/
by tanker 11y ago
This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players." [1] Results will vary by who is hiring.
[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=How_to_Hire_Insanely_Great_Employees.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
- dragonwriter 11y ago> This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players." Tangentially, I've always wondered, in that model, how B players ever get hired.
- dustingetz 11y agowhen B players found the company. For example software companies started by people who aren't excellent at writing software. And B hires C isn't even a bad outcome in that case, the founders may have other advantages and go on to be successful.
- dandrick 11y agoThey hatch from the egg in the chicken or egg equation.
- Outdoorsman 11y agoInteresting comment... Given the limits imposed by Job's comment, which parameters the construct, it may be that the set of "B Players" are (failed) A players, who've involuntarily been forced a step down the ladder, or, alternatively, they are C players who've convinced some unspecified hiring intermediary that they're on the rise... However one becomes a B player, by definition, one is constrained...one can only hire C players...dimming the prospects for success...so, for B, there appears to be little chance of ascending, or re-ascending, to A player status... Whimsical, but fun to think about...
- hibikir 11y agoThe right way to think about it is to realize that hiring is a very difficult business, and we all make mistakes. So it's not who they hire, but who they intend to hire. They still miss. So A players end up hiring B players when they don't want to, and sometimes A players sneak through the B player's filter. And this is why, when people that are apparently very good leave your company, you have to wonder if you have to much B team, and you are letting them run amok.
- lastsilverback 11y agoTangentially, by dumb luck. Or they pretend to be C players and get paid as those.
- samstave 11y agoSome times A players can fall to B or C due to life circumstance. Sometimes whole teams are formed with B and C players because company cannot pay A wages/benefits, and it just stays in B or C arena. I always strive to have people better than me on my team, and support them and keep them happy.
- hackaflocka 11y agoJobs hired Sculley. What does that make Jobs?
- holografix 11y agoThis. Can people please stop quoting Jobs? He was a massive narcissist who propped himself up on other people's work. This bullshit about A players was just his way of forcing everyone that worked for him to fear not delivering on his absurd expectations lest they become a "B" player.