Re:The Lesson to Unlearn
by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:07PM
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> But as you grow, that ten percent of underperforming people becomes large in absolute numbers, and is very painful to deal with.
I feel that beyond hiring, our entire society has a problem with tails of distributions. There is this strong movement behind standardization of everything everywhere to minimize the variance, but that not only eliminates both tails, it also lowers the mean. So e.g. here, in order to avoid exceptionally bad hires, companies not only forgo the chance of getting exceptionally good hires, they also lower the quality of a typical hire.
I feel that beyond hiring, our entire society has a problem with tails of distributions. There is this strong movement behind standardization of everything everywhere to minimize the variance, but that not only eliminates both tails, it also lowers the mean. So e.g. here, in order to avoid exceptionally bad hires, companies not only forgo the chance of getting exceptionally good hires, they also lower the quality of a typical hire.