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A 10x person who brings down 20 others to a small fraction of their potential and causes other rockstars to leave is still net-negative. Good management underst
by karparov 2y ago
A 10x person who brings down 20 others to a small fraction of their potential and causes other rockstars to leave is still net-negative. Good management understands this.
(And I'm not sure why I'm downvoted for this. Nothing about that should be controversial?)
- cratermoon 2y agoExactly. So the company keeps the guy everyone hates after laying off people that get along. The next people to leave the company are the ones disgusted by the move.
- karparov 2y agoDepends on the company. I've seen the opposite case were such a person was let go, much to everybody's relief. Some people had to clean up his mess, which was genius in the sense that it worked flawlessly, but nobody else could maintain it, so he had locked in a minimal bus factor. Which makes such a move harder to execute, but the earlier the better.
- shagie 2y agohttps://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 (2017) (133 points | 130 comments)