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By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:11:02 +0000

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By: Daren_Lewis

Daren_Lewis — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:20:16 +0000

Agreed! I've certainly seen it happen where top level performers go to someone else's team, another organization or a competitor/

By: Mario Vittone

Mario Vittone — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:31:08 +0000

Thanks Daren – and I know exactly the bottlenecks you speak of. And I guess that's the larger point. Pay attention to your true talent and they will stay – rise to the top – and not tolerate the systemic failures that hold people back. And your right, top 5%ers do not let process or obstacles stand in their way – but they often go around them by dumping on team for another.

By: Daren_Lewis

Daren_Lewis — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:02:37 +0000

Mario,
Great post.

I'd only add one caveat base on my experience with volunteers, you can identify organizational bottlenecks and practices that prevent low performers from reaching middle level performance. This really may not be a caveat because it isn't about individual focus at all, rather it is an organizational focus which looks at an entire population of performance. Also, these folks you unleash by dealing with process or bottlenecks seldom become top 5% performers… your highest performers don't let processes or bottlenecks stand in their way in the first place.

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