From a slightly different slant, where I work the executives decided, maybe 5 years ago, that they would start hiring only from the 10 schools and only the top candidates from those schools. When we get a new CEO during one of the company “townhall” meetings that subject came up.
The new CEO noted a discussion in the board room related to that. The bottom line was that for the most part none of the top people had degrees from such schools. One might add that the company had grown to it’s dominant market position with a workforce that did not reflect such a profile either.
It would seem the approach was scrapped.
I think the underlying approaches are actually the same—the desire for a “simple” (at least in the sense of clearly defined process or heuristic) solution to a rather difficult problem. How does one recognize just how [one] will add great value to future activities that are by nature not really driven by any one individual’s abilities or direct contribution?
From a slightly different slant, where I work the executives decided, maybe 5 years ago, that they would start hiring only from the 10 schools and only the top candidates from those schools. When we get a new CEO during one of the company “townhall” meetings that subject came up.
The new CEO noted a discussion in the board room related to that. The bottom line was that for the most part none of the top people had degrees from such schools. One might add that the company had grown to it’s dominant market position with a workforce that did not reflect such a profile either.
It would seem the approach was scrapped.
I think the underlying approaches are actually the same—the desire for a “simple” (at least in the sense of clearly defined process or heuristic) solution to a rather difficult problem. How does one recognize just how [one] will add great value to future activities that are by nature not really driven by any one individual’s abilities or direct contribution?