Those of you who have read Jim Collins’ “From Good to Great” know that he really stresses on getting “the right people on the bus”, before you even decide where the bus is going.<\/p>\n
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and president of Pixar & Disney Animation Studios, has been quoted in the Harvard Business Review as saying, “If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will make it work.”<\/p>\n
Here’s\u00a0a thought that I came across that is quite the contrary, and therefore provocative, written by Christian Mayaud of the Verticom Group<\/a>: “A Mediocre Management Team with a Great Strategy will outperform a Great Management Team with mediocre strategy EVERY TIME”. (His blog is http:\/\/www.sacredcowdung.com\/<\/a>\u00a0– the name sets the tone.) According to Mayaud:<\/p>\n I was playing with these thoughts, and came up with this (pardon the extremes, but sometimes it takes extremes to clarify your thinking).<\/p>\n (That’s just my thought for the day, and\u00a0tomorrow’s another day. Don’t take it too seriously. )<\/p>\n Work at your idea, and work at your team – that’s the only real way to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work at your idea, and work at your team – that’s the only real way to win.\n
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