Steve Jobs on A players and B players | Jim Keller and Lex Fridman

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[@waymanharris1284]

Very true, and this is why I don't want to work for large companies anymore. Too many b/c player managers in charge!

[@miraculixxs]

Same here. And for the same reason I work as a single consultant only, or in a team of single consultants.

[@555dino]

its cause people always hire their friends and not normally the person thats actually working why you got to make your point get across to those people quick i refuse to work for people like that your peace is your everything just got to be smart on how yea do it

[@TeslaRifle]

2:32 my job in a nutshell!

[@lowmax4431]

Yea I'm no A player but I just wanna make cool shit. 🥴

[@tmmnago2722]

What do you do.

[@ramanmono]

You're like that one dude from Big Hero 6 who's on the team with the fire breathing outfit.

[@victoriaholmes675]

You need a majority of b players for any project to succeed. The A players just need to understand their motivations, and know they're not the same. I've been an A player and a B player in many projects. As an A player I know to assign tasks and not get frustrated if it's not up to my standards. If the workload is too heavy for myself, I'll assign tasks to people and then fine tune details. Too many A players can hinder execution

[@caribbeanjack]

Fully agree, wonderfully put

[@victoriaholmes675]

@cj dub I am

[@CE-vd2px]

@cj dub For real LOL. It could be true she is an A player but i dont even find the dichotomy to be that real.

[@moart87]

Victoria, I agree! 🙌

[@diogeneslantern18]

Similarly, xxxP types are starters whereas xxxJ types are finishers

[@Michael-it6gb]

THE biggest problem with modern employers today, they have adopted Steve Jobs mentality and think they deserve all the A-players at their company, when they can't even afford them.

[@lophilip]

I find it useful to ask what hiring strategy is used "Quality, value, or speed". Everyone wants all 3, but in most projects value and speed is what is really required.

[@markportnoy6290]

Human society needs all sorts of skills to succeed. Categorizing A and B and C players is destructive too.

[@ramanmono]

Hmm, that sounds exactly what a D player would say.

[@markportnoy6290]

@@ramanmono Let me guess. Mask wearing guidelines are government overreach?

[@immanuelcunt7296]

People need to be categorized. There's no other way to build a differentiated idea of another person than to begin by categorizing them. It takes a lot of time to know someone as an individual, for at least the first few years your idea of them is going to be typed and categorized and based on heuristics.

[@markportnoy6290]

@@immanuelcunt7296 On a personal level, yes. We learn and adjust our understanding of people. What they're are talking about is jungle mentality in the economic world.

[@just-in-spacetime6674]

When failing = Death only A-Team. There is always someone waiting and willing to take your place. Especially me.

[@immanuelcunt7296]

Vision has to be the head, and diligent task grinding has to be the body. It's like anything, there's the part of the thing thats the matter, and the thing that composes the pattern of the thing. The workers are the matter, the leaders are the pattern/pattern-creators. The atoms are the matter, the molecule is the pattern they participate in together. The organs are the matter, you are the pattern they create.

[@OnionKnight541]

this is spot on

[@svetu9411]

They never defined what A players and B Players are before they started talking about them. Way to have a public conversation.

[@ramanmono]

Well than you are definitely at the most a C player.

[@lokexinxun511]

C players - waiting for everyone to feed them black & white information 😂😂

[@jeffreychongsathien]

The definition of A player should include both Character and Technical aspects.

[@TheNebraska402]

Is there such thing as a C player? Like someone who shows up, does their job, but does it half ass and doesn't care that they bring the rest of the team down? There are a lot of those people at my job

[@rey82rey82]

Superposition: AB

[@connormaurice5627]

A + B cowboy

[@adamsmith3413]

Read “Now it can be told” by Leslie Groves the leader of the Manhattan Project. I think that was one of the unsung miracles of WWII. The lid of secrecy came down so fast that Groves never got the credit he should have - plus he made a lot of enemies.

[@RyanPerrella]

I THINK THERE IS A RECIPE, LEX was on it, it has to do EXACTLY with Steve Jobs and A players self policing. BINGO! MACINTOSH TEAM was a team for the ages. Wow, please choose to Learn from Steve Jobs, not the other suggestion. Because you can only FOCUS your attention on one thing, Steve was a Original, an Icon of the greatest implementation of Hardware/Software in our known history, exemplified by Team Macintosh, assembled in 1978.

[@Showmethefish]

Luck has a lot to do with it also

[@faisalnsour5771]

This guy is right and thankfully someone is saying it. Too often the myth of the lone genius creates a drags on progress. It logically does not follow--the notion that only A people can deliver A products is an example of the composition fallacy where the assumption is made that a characteristic of the part will necessarily follow for the whole. And does not follow empirically--this talk sums up some of the ideas on the relationship between group cohesion and effectiveness: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKrRkKuCp9mNl7s

[@stemblackswan3901]

The more you know the more you realize how little you know.

[@phoenixfreewalkeroreilly2212]

Beautiful

[@drakes5001]

What exactly is the diff b/w an A and a B player?

[@MikhailFederov]

Only an F player would ask this

[@adelinaquijano1083]

think positive please.

[@AudaciousAmber]

true, wanna work with cool people doing cool shit, ....about to happen

[@fitnesspoint2006]

There are few cool people in this world...you will learn

[@VGLV888]

☑️✅

[@nutbaridea1097]

Steve jobs is dead because he didn’t know how to live

[@drinkingpoolwater]

he was stubborn. if he would’ve just had the radiation treatments he’d still be alive but he wanted to go the holistic route

[@luc0007]

@@sauljahboi5965 Steve Jobs had a survivable form of cancer and instead of using radiation and chemo he stepped bare foot on basil and rubbed ocean water on his forehead

[@Bikegypsy-Studio]

Death is unsurvivable for everyone.

[@fitnesspoint2006]

Lex is sooo boring

[@irvine175]

I’m sure Jim is embarrassed by his drug addict brother in law. Glad he got out of rehab. Hopefully things will get better for Jordan.