When To Get Rid Of The "Best" People That Work For You

My last post on management, When Firing Someone, Focus On Those That Remain http://herman.org/Blogs/2-speed/archive/2006/07/03/158.aspx , got me thinking about how organizations function and the role of various types of people within organizations. Inevitably, some people work well within certain organizations and some work poorly. Perhaps one of the most interesting facts about this dynamic is that an employee’s ability to work well in any organization and thus, his or her value to it, can’t always be judged by the most obvious measures like individual performance, effort, innovativeness or even productivity.

Of course, this is counterintuitive to most managers who, generally like to judge people in the easiest, most one-dimensional fashion. Sorry guys, in my experience it’s always been way more complicated than that.

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