{"id":6119,"date":"2014-11-04T00:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2014-11-04T00:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:55:19","slug":"the-unbearable-b-ness-of-software-michael-o-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/the-unbearable-b-ness-of-software-michael-o-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The unbearable B-ness of software &#124; Michael O. Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not Jack Welch\u2019s biggest fan. For one thing, he invented the \u201crank-and-yank\u201d HR policies that literally decimate companies. I don\u2019t disagree with the idea that companies would improve their health by letting go 5-10 percent of their people per year, but I think the discovery process involved is impossible and often politically toxic. There is, however, one thing he\u2019s said that I think has a lot of value: \u201cA players hire A players; B players hire C players\u201c. His point is that if you have mediocre management, you\u2019ll actually end up with terrible employees. I would say it\u2019s not limited to hiring only. A players make more A players. They teach each other how to be better. Not only that, but they raise the potential for what an A player can do. B players don\u2019t have the foresight or \u201cownership\u201d mentality to mentor others, and produce non-productive C players.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelochurch.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/14\/the-unbearable-b-ness-of-software\/\">The unbearable B-ness of software | Michael O. Church<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not Jack Welch\u2019s biggest fan. For one thing, he invented the \u201crank-and-yank\u201d HR policies that literally decimate companies. I don\u2019t disagree with the idea that companies would improve their health by letting go 5-10 percent of their people per year, but I think the discovery process involved is impossible and often politically toxic. There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/the-unbearable-b-ness-of-software-michael-o-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The unbearable B-ness of software &#124; Michael O. Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,72,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-career","category-programming","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}