I’ve been thinking about the statistical tendency to belong to high-performing groups, and I keep running up against a dearth of data problem. Information about the performance of top-level organizations is easy to come by, and individuals make efforts to communicate information about their own performance, but teams which are the unit of action don’t seem very legible to third parties.
I wonder how much of a motive this is for acquiring startups instead of driving innovation internally; a startup often is only the unit of action, and has gone through several rounds of assessment by investors.
I’ve been thinking about the statistical tendency to belong to high-performing groups, and I keep running up against a dearth of data problem. Information about the performance of top-level organizations is easy to come by, and individuals make efforts to communicate information about their own performance, but teams which are the unit of action don’t seem very legible to third parties.
I wonder how much of a motive this is for acquiring startups instead of driving innovation internally; a startup often is only the unit of action, and has gone through several rounds of assessment by investors.