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It happens to every company. And – so my pet theory goes – this is inevitable. Any company over size x is, by definition, staffed by average people. That’s the
by jen729w 8y ago
It happens to every company. And – so my pet theory goes – this is inevitable.
Any company over size x is, by definition, staffed by average people. That’s the very definition of average. What, then, would lead anyone to believe that a sufficiently large company could possibly be full of geniuses? It just can’t happen.
(FWIW this is why I find the companies that do seem to break the mould – Apple, for example – so interesting.)
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoApple surely has plenty of average people too. Arguably the key to operating a large business is to figure out how to optimize the placement and tasking of your geniuses/motivated people with vision/whatever for the greatest gains whilst using the average staff effectively to keep the general workload off of said individuals.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> Any company over size x is, by definition, staffed by average people. Average for that company, not average across profession. > What, then, would lead anyone to believe that a sufficiently large company could possibly be full of geniuses? It just can’t happen. It absolutely can and should (though it's another question why it rarely does). It requires expending continuous effort though - effort to bring in above-average people, to raise the level of people on-board so they stay above average, and to get rid of people that are below average. This is actually what life itself does. The default, lowest-energy state of matter is a mixed and utterly uninteresting soup of everything. Living things continuously expend energy to maintain an organized, higher-energy state against the threat of average. They continuously pump entropy out.