人才三角

February 7, 2025

2025年2月7日

My mentor once told me: “everyone sucks in their first 5 years as a manager. It’s up to you if you’re going to suck for the next 15 too.”

我的导师曾告诉我：“每个人在成为经理的前五年都很糟糕。接下来的十五年你是否也会糟糕就看你自己了。”

Today - I’m going to tell you about a little triangle that saved my a** many times as a manager. 

今天 - 我将告诉你一个小三角形，它在我作为经理时多次救了我。

I call it the Triangle of Talent. 

我称之为人才三角。

Every company has a distribution of talent. It looks something like this: 

每个公司都有人才的分布。看起来大致是这样的：

The weird thing is: as a manager, you’ll spend 90% of your time dealing with the employees on the left (problem employees) or the middle (average joes).

奇怪的是：作为一个经理，你将花90%的时间处理左侧的员工（问题员工）或中间的员工（普通员工）。

But it’s the people on the right side (the star employees) that create 90% of the value in the company. 

但正是右侧的人（明星员工）创造了公司90%的价值。

If you’re in a company - you wanna be one of these “right side” players. 

如果你在一家公司——你想成为这些“右侧”玩家之一。

If you’re running a company - you want as many “right side” players as you can.

如果你在经营一家公司 - 你希望拥有尽可能多的“右侧”玩家。

As Elon says:

正如Elon所说：

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If you don’t speak dork, what he means is: “the team you build is the company you build… so build a great team.”

如果你不懂行话，他的意思是：“你建立的团队就是你建立的公司……所以要建立一个伟大的团队。”

OK  enough teasing - here’s my Triangle of Talent:

好了，够调侃了 - 这是我的 人才三角：

Quick explanation: 

快速解释：

• Forget job titles: All employees are problem solvers
• 忘掉职位名称：所有员工都是问题解决者
• Problem solving has 2 parts: 
  • Identify the right problem to solve
  • Solve it (yourself, or coordinating others) 
• 解决问题有两个部分：
  • 识别正确的问题
  • 解决它（自己解决，或协调他人）
• Star performers live at the top of the triangle
• 明星表现者位于三角形的顶端

This becomes a very simple guide:

这变成了一个非常简单的指南：

Are you identifying the A+ problem on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis? 

你是否每天、每周、每月和每年都在识别A+问题？

Are you able to solve that problem – either alone, or by coordinating other people? 

你能否解决这个问题——无论是独自一人，还是通过协调其他人？

(Btw – most people think the job is about solving the problem, and it kinda is, but the easier and more impactful thing is getting good at figuring out "what problem needs to be solv...