A Players: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:55, 15 August 2019

OSE focuses on partners, not employees. Here are comments about great employees:

10 things really amazing employees do - Inc - [1]
A great engineer is worth 100 average ones - Zuckerberg
But this is only part of the story. A-players need a pat on the back now and again. What’s interesting is that they only value pats on the back from other A-players. They don’t value the approval unless they respect and admire the person giving it. So developing a critical mass of A-players has an added benefit: The company tends to repel B-players and attract other A-players, reinforcing what it has built. Zappos employed this theory when it famously offered its employees $2,000 to quit under the assumption that A-players aren’t motivated by money and only B-players would take the deal. - [2]

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 *10 things really amazing employees do - Inc - [https://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/10-things-really-amazing-employees-do.html]
+*A great engineer is worth 100 average ones - Zuckerberg
+*''But this is only part of the story. A-players need a pat on the back now and again. What’s interesting is that they only value pats on the back from other A-players. They don’t value the approval unless they respect and admire the person giving it. So developing a critical mass of A-players has an added benefit: The company tends to repel B-players and attract other A-players, reinforcing what it has built. Zappos employed this theory when it famously offered its employees $2,000 to quit under the assumption that A-players aren’t motivated by money and only B-players would take the deal.'' - [https://venturebeat.com/2012/06/30/why-startups-should-only-hire-a-players/]