It's so true, too. Productivity really does alienate slackers. Who was it that said small teams Do not tolerate freeloaders?
To be fair to Jeff, he understood that Ashton was in the wrong place to be doing what he was doing. He might as well have been knitting mittens in the Congo. It took Ashton two years to realize that Jeff was the one who understood what the company offered and what the company expected in return.
My favourite quote.