When building a team, don't look for the best people, look for the right people.

· Bits and Bobs 2/3/25
  • When building a team, don't look for the best people, look for the right people.
    • "Best" here meaning a context-independent measure of quality and skill.
    • "Right" here meaning the context-dependent measure of applicable quality and skill.
    • Different contexts require different skills.
    • You could find the best person in a dimension that is the wrong dimension for this context, which would be the wrong person.
    • If you're an individual, you want to be the best–good in a lot of different dimensions, more likely to be the right person for a lot of different scenarios.
    • But if you're a team looking to add a team member, you want to find the right person.

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