----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Fox News, we distort, you comply.
> What we're talking about here is relative skill level. > The question is, is someone who is good enough to get > to where they are likely to be really, really good at > what they do? Again, look at professional baseball > players. To play in the major leagues you have to be > one of the ~1000 best baseball players _in the world_. > And there are tens of millions of people who have at > least, at some point in their lives, tried to play > baseball. So out of all of those tens of millions of > people, MLB players are in the top _1000_. That's > incredibly good. I thought of another reason why the analogy doesn't really work How often does an owner buy a new baseball team, force out the the top pitcher, with an ERA of 2.15 for the last three seasons and replace him with a pitcher with an ERA of 4.55? I personally know a corporation that replaced a company president who lead the company to a clear first in market share with someone else who ran his organization a distant fourth. They kept some of his subordinates, but they didn't fare as well as the subordinates of the internal division that was the distant fourth. Unsurprisingly, the market share dropped like a rock, as I mentioned before. The corporate leadership team search high and low for the cause, ignoring the elephant in the room. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
