A-Players Create Success
To say it outright, even the most talented person in the world won’t do well here if they don’t have an interest in helping other people grow and succeed. The question you will be held most accountable for isn’t “how have you gotten better” it's “how did you make someone else better?” Better yet, how have you made the collective, the team, better?
Notes on Roadtrips
A-Players are obsessive, learn from mistakes, coachable, intelligent, don’t make excuses, believe in Youtube, see the value of this company, and are the best in the goddamn world at their job. B-Players are new people that need to be trained into A-Players, and C-Players are just average employees. [...] They arn’t obsessive and learning. C-Players... See more
simonwillison.net • How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF)
Dweck’s work tells us there are indeed “A-players” and “B-players.” A-players are simply people with a growth mindset who, upon joining a team, will try to discover how to make the team successful, working to acquire the necessary skills in the process. In contrast, people with a fixed mindset — the true B-players — are the biggest barrier to organ
... See moreJez Humble, Joanne Molesky, • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
an A-player is: ‘a candidate who has at least a 90 per cent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only the top 10 per cent of possible candidates could achieve.’