I keep seeing people talk about ‘A’ players and I’m usually left wondering what qualifies a person as an ‘A’ player. Is this like the Star bellied Sneeches? Do I need to get a star tattoo?
The qualification of an ‘A’ player is mostly subjective. At NCR once we had some guys fly up to present for our big customer in Bentonville. They rolled out this guy as the big star. Their claim – he’s an A player. Why? Because he was one of the twelve who authored a book on ASP (old ASP, not ASP.NET – this was in the 90s). I worked with him – he was not particularly great. He made mistakes, lots of them.
As always – caveat emptor.
But, yeah, I get that people who are willing to work hard are becoming disenchanted with the rat race. Of course people are looking for something new. Would you really want to work for American Airlines, TI, Nortel and any number of these big lumbering dinosaurs? Would you want to work for a company that is laying off tens of thousands of people while giving the executives huge bonuses?
It’s almost a scene straight from “Atlas Shrugged”.