| > You're generalising and stereotyping in a way that suggests you're not very experienced, so perhaps we can put down the bizarre sweeping statements to inexperience. Dunno, his experience pretty much matches experience that I had in different parts of this industry in different roles all the way to being someone who only reports to a board of directors. It also matches the experience of lots of people that I know. It is the "mean" of all industries and even unicorns revert to the mean in time. > Why would I do that? I believe if you want to get better at something, hang out with people who are already better. I get better if I work with better people and, as it happens, my bosses/shareholders are happy with that too because they end up with a more talented workforce. That maybe true in some small companies. In fact, it probably is true for all small companies that survive. It is certainly not true in larger or large companies until those companies convert individual departments into entities judged by P&L and only P&L. > It's no different to building a band: Paul, John, George and Ringo all knew the others were better at something than they were, and knew that was the secret to them all individually stepping up and beyond their previous abilities. This is how the bands that do not make it out of a garage look like - the ones that are staffed by sad 40 year old men who think their music is awesome and they are just about to make it while working as waiters and bus boys in restaurants. Successful bands are staffed by "rock stars" - the minimum acceptable level of performance is so high these people are not even in a market. There are no managers that are not rock stars at what they do and non-rock stars are definitely not telling rock stars what to do. |