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> I've had a very difficult time competing for top talent. The problem is this idea of looking for top talent. The vast majority of people in virtually any hu
by rebootthesystem 10y ago
> I've had a very difficult time competing for top talent.
The problem is this idea of looking for top talent.
The vast majority of people in virtually any human endevor are mediocre. Be it an orchestra, army or corporation. Maybe 5% to 10% of an organization is top talent, the rest are average.
What makes any organization excel is having managers and leadership who can take a team of average folks and make them produce brilliant sounding symphonies. Develop THAT skill and you'll have no limits.
- kordless 10y agoI would say that hiring and training process becomes paramount in a bootstrapped organization. I'm going through it right now in my current gig.
- manmal 10y agoThe picture of Google recycling old, cheap servers to generate vast amounts of combined computing power comes to mind. It's all in the management layer.
- alexqgb 10y agoI wish I could upvote this 100 times because this is the absolute honest to goodness truth. It's not that talent is over-rated so much as really well-run places are underrated. Perhaps that's because talent is actually a lot more common, and thus better understood.
- Taylor_OD 10y agoThis. I work in a organization (sales) where the top 5%-10% generates as much revenue as the other 90%-95%. However the mediocre or just okay people are a crucial part of the system. The best teams in my company are a run by great managers that know how to get the most out of a average employee.