The Bid/Ask Spread for Top Talent
From the traditional workplace to the modern-day start-up, the people who are perceived to be the best at what they do get extraordinary rewards, while those who rank just a quarter percentile point below them get rewards that are much more ordinary.
Dr Grace Lordan • Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want
We learned that a company with really dense talent is a company everyone wants to work for. High performers especially thrive in environments where the overall talent density is high.
Erin Meyer • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Knowledge work is famous for very large differences in abilities among workers.15 For example, repeated studies found that differences between the programmers in the top 75th percentile and those in the bottom 25th percentile can be as much as 27 times along some dimensions of programming quality. And my own research has found that large gaps exist
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