Types of Employees
Companies are full of people with different ratings on the intelligence and energy scales. Combine those 2 attributes and you have 4 possible combinations, says Shane Parrish : - Stupid and lazy : Companies handle them by breaking down tasks, creating processes and doing everything possible to “remove any need of judgment”. Sound familiar? - Stupid and energetic : This set is quite dangerous. Albeit not malicious, they often end up creating more work for others. - Intelligent and energetic : Obviously, every company needs such people. - Intelligent and lazy : This turns out to be the most interesting category; so I will discuss this at length. A) Such people can be tough to work with because they are very atypical: they delegate, don’t micromanage, and (shudder) q...