[Flop7331]

I think this is one of those cases where there's really very little way of knowing what really worked and what didn't. It's like a sports team: you can make ALL the right managerial choices, but still fail due to chance and factors outside your control.

At best there are some reasonably good heuristics.

[bradleyjg]

On the flip side you can hire Michael Jordan and screw everything else up and still win. Then go on to write a business book that’s completely misleading because you never realize that you did only one thing right, and that was enough.

[cloche]

> On the flip side you can hire Michael Jordan and screw everything else up and still win

Unless your company is a baseball team