There is a law in team dynamics that is counter-intuitive: “Good” is the enemy of “Great.”<\/b><\/p>\n
When you have a team of A-Players (Self-driven, high-agency), they move at the speed of trust. They don’t need meetings. They don’t need supervision. If you add one<\/i> B-Player (Competent, but needs direction\/checking) to this team, you don’t just lower the average. You destroy the system.<\/p>\n
The Steve Jobs Principle<\/b><\/p>\n
Steve Jobs famously said: “A-Players like to work with A-Players. If you hire a B-Player, they start hiring C-Players. The Bozo Explosion happens.”<\/i><\/p>\n
The 3 Costs of the B-Player<\/b><\/p>\n
1. The Supervision Tax<\/b> A-Players solve problems. B-Players create “questions.” If your A-Player has to stop their deep work to explain something to the B-Player for the third time, you have turned a Ferrari into a school bus.<\/p>\n
2. The Morale Leak<\/b> Nothing frustrates a high-performer more than seeing a mediocre performer get the same paycheck. It signals: “Excellence is not required here.”<\/i> The moment that signal is sent, the A-Player updates their LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n
3. The Speed Limit<\/b> A convoy moves at the speed of the slowest truck. If you have 4 Cheetahs and 1 Turtle, you don’t have a pack of Cheetahs. You have a parade led by a Turtle.<\/p>\n
The Protocol: Hire for Slope, Fire for Drag<\/b><\/p>\n The “Hell Yes” Hiring Rule:<\/b> When debriefing an interview, if the answer isn’t “Hell Yes,” it is “No.” “Maybe” is “No.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Probation Cliff:<\/b> You know within 2 weeks if someone is an A-Player. If you have doubts at 2 weeks, fire them. Do not wait for the 90-day review.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Keeper Test:<\/b> (From Netflix) “If this person told me they were leaving for a competitor, would I fight hard to keep them?”<\/p>\n If the answer is No… give them a severance package today.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n #DhandheKaFunda:<\/b> You are not building a family; you are building a sports team. Cut the players who can’t keep up, or you will lose the championship.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a law in team dynamics that is counter-intuitive: “Good” is the enemy of “Great.” When you have a team of A-Players (Self-driven, high-agency), they move at the speed of trust. They don’t need meetings. They don’t need supervision. If you add one B-Player (Competent, but needs direction\/checking) to this team, you don’t just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[100,118,119],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blueprint","tag-culture","tag-hiring","tag-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/61.notredamme.com\/utpalmv-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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