Thing is, in many job positions "A players" add a lot of value, "B players" add reasonable value, and "C players" still do some useful work, it's only D- that a

Thing is, in many job positions "A players" add a lot of value, "B players" add reasonable value, and "C players" still do some useful work, it's only D- that are worthless. However, for CxOs the dynamic is as the grandparent post mentioned, that mediocre CEOs add trivial value and the weak CEOs are actively harmful; so the expected tolerance to B-players should be quite different.