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by stephen_cagle 414 days ago
That's interesting. I wonder what other industries are like that, where a single person keeps bringing his (mutually) trusted cadre of employees with them?

I've heard in the past that the skill of a surgeon is actually more a reflection of the surgeon's team than the actual surgeon. So "great surgeons" are actually people who have "great teams". Sounds similar to me.
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noisy_boy 414 days ago
It is not so dissimilar in Finance. Senior manager comes, understands the lay of the land for a little while to form a picture of what changes they need/want and pushes out people to get his own people in. There is a lot of politics in banks etc and it becomes very important to them that they get rid of threats or those who won't unquestionably carry out their wishes. It is usually justified as shaking things up. Predictably such things are not great for quality of work but then again, that is secondary in a politically active space that a lot of Finance places are.
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darkwizard42 414 days ago
Finance can have this at times; software engineering can have this at times as well (especially at the senior levels and in specialized fields OR at the startup level - people like working together and will often work together again).
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