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Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools, and the Formation of Social Networks
- bprater 18y agoCan someone make the rest of the article available?
- sharksandwich 18y agohttp://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4916.html http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4916.html Not really worth the read, honestly - a lot of fluff
- d0mine 18y agoI wish I could push a Report Spam button.
- senthil_rajasek 18y agod0mine, personality types affect the success/failure of any venture, its relevant and useful to this community.
- noonespecial 18y agoHis problem wasn't that the article was not relevant. His problem is that none of us can read it because its locked behind a subscription service. This means that it either doesn't belong here (and is here by accident) or is spam trying to get us to sign up, which also doesn't belong here.
- senthil_rajasek 18y agoHmmm here is how I accessed the full article. I used my local public library's online magazine access. I don't have a personal subscription to HBR.
- allenbrunson 18y agothat's what the "flag" button is for. it could be that you don't have it yet, though. using the flag button requires a certain amount of karma points, i'm not sure how many.
- coglethorpe 18y ago"New research shows that when people need help getting a job done, they’ll choose a congenial colleague over a more capable one. That has big implications for every organization—and not all of them are negative." If by "new research" they mean my entire working experience and probably that of millions of others, or the design that led to LinkedIn's success, sure. I've seen far too many people work themselves right out of a job because they were just impossible to deal with.