When I ask these leaders why they don't put people in place that they do trust, they usually argue that they either can't find, can't afford, or can't attract the level of people that Google, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix hire. I then point out to them the many people I know who have moved from companies like theirs to one of these leading companies, and how their performance dramatically improved in the process. And further, having worked with many people at each of these companies, I point out how ordinary the vast majority of the people on these teams actually are. Maybe the important
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