Tag Archive - Management

The Role of Luck in Hiring

I wrote the other day about some of the reasons why small teams of outstanding people might be more effective than larger teams of average people.

Maybe in a perfect world we could all agree. The rub though is that in practice, finding outstanding people and getting them to work for you can be tricky. Continue Reading…

Small Teams of Outstanding People

Thumbing through a copy of Revolutionizing IT: The Art of Using Information Technology Effectively, one thing was singled out as a core principle and repeated a couple of times:

A modest number of outstanding people are more valuable than a large number of average ones.

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