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:: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 ::

Three cheers for the B team!
As a lifelong B-teamer (or at least since the days of seventh grade, when I warmed the bench for our junior high school's basketball "B" team), I'm gratified to read this USA Today article giving us our due.

When employers aren't busy weeding out the bottom 10% of their workforce, they've been trying to steal the A players from the competition in a battle to lure the best. But some of those employers are coming around to the realization that failure and success might not lie among the weakest and strongest links, but in the solid middle, the B players like Joel, the 75% of workers who have been all but ignored.

Companies have been trying to capture what organizational intelligence consultant Adrian Savage calls the "unicorns," but the focus is starting to shift to the horses, the B players.

"Ignore them at your peril," says Thomas DeLong, a Harvard management professor who co-authored with organizational strategy consultant Vineeta Vijayaraghavan of Katzenbach Partners an article in the June issue of Harvard Business Review called "Let's Hear It for B Players."

I used to strive to make the "A" list -- in journalism, in writing, in ministry, etc. -- but I'm finding myself growing more comfortable in my role as part of the "solid middle."

:: Andrew 07:40 + ::
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