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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 | 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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