{"id":7848,"date":"2019-04-27T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2019-04-27T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:14:50","slug":"the-importance-of-working-with-a-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/the-importance-of-working-with-a-players\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Working With \u201cA\u201d Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Building a team is more complicated than collecting talent<sup>1<\/sup>. I once tried to solve a problem by putting a bunch of PhDs\u2019 in a room. While comments like that sounded good and got me a lot of projects above my level, they were rarely effective at delivering actual results.<br \/>\nStatements like \u201clet\u2019s assemble a multidisciplinary team of incredible people\u201d are gold in meetings if you work for an organization. These statements sound intelligent. They are hard to argue with. And, most importantly, they also have no accountability built in, and they are easy to wiggle out of. If things don\u2019t work out, who can fault a plan that meant putting smart people in a room.<br \/>\nWell \u2026 I can. It\u2019s a stupid plan.<br \/>\nThe combination of individual intelligence does not make for group intelligence. Thinking about this in the context of the Jobs quote above, \u201cA\u201d players provide a lot more than raw intellectual horsepower. Among other things, they also bring drive, integrity, and an ability to make others better. \u00a0\u201cA\u201d players want to work with other \u201cA\u201d players. Accepting that statement doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re all \u201cthe best\u201d.<br \/>\nIn my experience solving difficult problems, the best talent available rarely led to the best solutions. You needed the best team. And the best team meant you had to exercise judgment and think about the problem. While there was often one individual with the idea that ultimately solved the problem, it wouldn\u2019t have happened without the team. \u00a0The ideas others spark in us are more than we can spark in ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/04\/a-players\/\">The Importance of Working With \u201cA\u201d Players<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a team is more complicated than collecting talent1. I once tried to solve a problem by putting a bunch of PhDs\u2019 in a room. While comments like that sounded good and got me a lot of projects above my level, they were rarely effective at delivering actual results. Statements like \u201clet\u2019s assemble a multidisciplinary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/the-importance-of-working-with-a-players\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Importance of Working With \u201cA\u201d Players&#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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","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=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}