http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law
"..organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
So, organisations will tend to produce outputs that resemble their internal communications structure.
The internal communications structure is a derivative of the internal social structure.
The internal social structure is a derivative of the characters of the people in the organization. This includes the leaders and followers in the organisation.
Hence.. if you want excellent outputs, you must have the excellent people with character. Extra emphasis on character should be placed when building a team, not just weightage on ability.
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Extra emphasis on character should be placed when building a team, not just weightage on ability.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a team full of people with character but without ability, you can all sit together and suck thumb with character. :-)
You definitely need ability in a team, but integrity is an important pre-requisite.
My view: just collect all the people with ability. Eliminate those without integrity. Then see who can work together with the rest. :-)
That said, we are talking in a vacuum lah. You don't always get to choose who you work with. Those with integrity and ability may not want to work with you also -- and sometimes beggars can't be choosers.
Life is tough lah -- but talk is cheap, so we can do cheap talk here. ;-)