{"id":421,"date":"2004-07-17T01:51:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T06:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/17\/smart-systems-not-just-smart-people\/"},"modified":"2004-07-17T01:51:03","modified_gmt":"2004-07-17T06:51:03","slug":"smart-systems-not-just-smart-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/17\/smart-systems-not-just-smart-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Systems not just smart people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a383'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I was reading this 2002 article (again) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?fact\/020722fa_fact\">The Talent Myth<\/a>.<br \/>\n In it, the author surmises that a smart system is more effective than smart<br \/>\n people in a large system.   I&#8217;m sure with the downfall of Enron there has<br \/>\n been a backswing in Corporate Management to not just search for star talent.<br \/>\n Searching for star talent is good but I think with strong skills comes<br \/>\n ambition.  And unfortunately, ambition is a very double edged sword when<br \/>\n it comes to company loyalty.  I&#8217;m still brewing on ideas on how one<br \/>\n deals with that at the upper management levels but not really sure on it.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Either way, I think the article makes a good point.  I&#8217;ll summarize it as<br \/>\n &#8220;Genius doesn&#8217;t scale&#8221;.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?fact\/020722fa_fact\">Read it for yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this 2002 article (again) on The Talent Myth. In it, the author surmises that a smart system is more effective than smart people in a large system. I&#8217;m sure with the downfall of Enron there has been a backswing in Corporate Management to not just search for star talent. Searching for star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}