When 'Stars' Migrate, Do They Still Perform Like Stars?

摘要

Talent! Even though many companies seem to have the pick of the lot in today's job market, "talent" is still the rallying cry of hiring managers and CEOs everywhere. Indeed, particularly in industries based on knowledge and skill - from consulting to phar-maceuticals to professional sports to food services -organizations are still competing for the best, the brightest and the hardest working: those overachievers who regularly outshine the merely competent. The belief is that such individuals - the financial analyst with uncanny market insights, the baseball pitcher with a devastating curveball, the pastry chef with sumptuous concoctions - are a key source of competitive advantage. Past research is clear on the benefits of high-performing workers (let's call them "stars"). For highly complex jobs, the top 1% of employees tends to outperform average workers by 127%. Star computer programmers are more productive than average ones by a ratio of eight to one.