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But ''there is no average employee''. This abstract average is an emergent property of an unstable group.  
But ''there is no average employee''. This abstract average is an emergent property of an unstable group.  


It includes the young savant, who with rude haste will be catapulted out of the cohort to bigger, brighter things, and the [[weak gazelle]] who should. insh’Allah, be torpedoed from it in the next [[RIF]]. Neither will be there in a year's time. Those who much around the median have different skills, different attributes, bring different sets of tools to the table.<ref>Well, ''theoretically'' they should. Whether they ''do'' the firm’s recruiting methodology allows this is another question. If you only [[Diversity|hire]] Russell Group grads and laterals with [[magic circle]] experience, we are talking about you.</ref>Yet [[HR]] insists on drawing an average from these varying trajectories and holding everyone to it.. No single employee at any time has both characteristics. -one at the firm operates in the abstract  
It includes the young savant, who with rude haste will be catapulted out of the cohort to bigger, brighter things, and the [[weak gazelle]] who should, insh’Allah, be torpedoed from it in the next [[RIF]]. Neither will be there in a year’s time. Those who mulch around the median have different skills, different attributes, bring different sets of tools to the table.<ref>Well, ''theoretically'' they should. Whether they ''do'' the firm’s recruiting methodology allows this is another question. If you only [[Diversity|hire]] Russell Group grads and laterals with [[magic circle]] experience, we are talking about you.</ref> Yet [[HR]] insists on drawing an average from these varying trajectories and holding everyone to it. This average is a blended emulsion that reflects nothing about any of them.
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To look the average rather than at individuals is a kind of [[ergodicity|ergodic switch]]. Each of those individuals has its own life history: a vapour trail, a trajectory, a unique collection of skills, foibles and attributes which the individual sorts, tests, burnishes and rejects. The individual who stays at the organisation adapts to it in a way an abstract average can’t.
 
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*[[Lateral hire]]
*[[Lateral hire]]
*[[Lateral quitter]]
*[[Lateral quitter]]
*[[Mediocrity drift]]
*[[Mediocrity drift]]
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