A few years back, I took over a large research business that was dangerously close to free-falling. Sales had shrunk for 13 consecutive quarters. Many of the best people had left for greener pastures; the worst people had been laid off. One of the board members joked that the only employees left were politically-adept mediocre players. That wasn’t completely true, but it wasn’t totally false, either.
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