Comments on: Where Do You Spend Your Time http://managementblog.org/2007/09/21/where-do-you-spend-your-time/ Managerial Leadership Practices based on the Time Span research of Elliott Jaques. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Crenshaw http://managementblog.org/2007/09/21/where-do-you-spend-your-time/#comment-1520 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:06:49 +0000 http://www.managementblog.org/archives/2007/09/21/where-do-you-spend-your-time/#comment-1520 Is there a source I can go to for more information on the study you referenced?

]]> By: Forrest Christian http://managementblog.org/2007/09/21/where-do-you-spend-your-time/#comment-1519 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:51:13 +0000 http://www.managementblog.org/archives/2007/09/21/where-do-you-spend-your-time/#comment-1519 Question: Is this because the high-performers were actually severely underemployed or because they were more talented or some other reason?

Brooks saw something similar in programming, where the top performers were almost an order of magnitude higher in output than the mediocre performers, and multiples of the good performers.

And a study in IT that showed that while managers can see underperformance, they can’t see who is over-performing.

So how do you hire for performance?

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