Week 5

To choose between top talent and consistency is a very difficult thing. As a manager I would recognize the importance of matching talent to the right job. Some people have natural, innate skills that allow them to succeed at a certain profession over someone who dedicates themselves to try as hard as they can to be successful at the position. If I needed to fill an essential opening for a position in my company, I would go with the person with the highest performance ceiling, Avery. To me, having the best talent is the most important thing. It is something that cannot be trained, everything else can be managed and worked on.

A job where it would be more beneficial to hire a high performing person like Avery would be one that is of a specialty job. This type of job has roles that require certain skills and not just any average person could be successful in. These jobs are more unpredictable and require critical perspective and decision making. For example, forestry, craftsmanship, designing, and construction. A job where a person like Avery with lower performance potential but high consistency would be better is one that has predictable work, particularly physical work. These jobs include ones such as welding on an assembly line, food preparation, packaging of objects, or other work that is team based and includes line work. These types of jobs hinge on the expectation that work inputs form employees will be the same every time to effectively predict and calculate what needs to be done on each shift. Often times these jobs are not one specialty position but contain multiple positions of one type of job to be filled by different people. In this case, talent is still, but key operations cannot take place without the predictability and perfected routine that happens in such jobs