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Deploying Talent to Drive Optimal Results

As CEOs, you are always thinking about the optimal way to deploy top talent, however, there are a couple of different schools of thought on how best to do that.  Do you take top performers and spread them throughout the organization in the hope that they can impact the company broadly or do you concentrate them in a few key functions that are most critical to driving the business forward?  This article argues for the latter and has some compelling evidence about the resulting impact.

https://hbr.org/2017/02/the-best-companies-dont-have-more-stars-they-cluster-them-together