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>But why did the team need to grow to that size if they were highly effective before that? Having seen this firsthand, (in my experience) it's been that execut
by NickC25 3y ago
>But why did the team need to grow to that size if they were highly effective before that?
Having seen this firsthand, (in my experience) it's been that executives or higher-ups decide that this team is working, and because they want to increase the company's bottom line, they will grow that team come hell or high water because in their minds, that team is correlated with results.
>Doesn't the growth and the adoption of those that don't have the skill handicap everyone else?
Considerably.
- ochoseis 3y agoThe question naturally becomes: how do you find a small, high performing team in the first place? I think maintaining a good network (previous colleagues, involvement in a broader community) will lead to opportunities, but then you have to distill the best ones.
- NickC25 3y agoI would think that would be industry specific, but maybe a decent standardized way of doing so would be finding the people who made it to industry titans (elite tech firms or trading firms) and left for whatever reason who then went off and did their own thing but still managed to reach a specific level of success. And example of this is (in finance) if some team at a bank or whatever all left as a group founded a small hedge fund or prop trading fund, yet were still able to make a great return.