B-team players keep the company going when stars fall

“Who’s most critical to your company’s success, especially during a weak economy? Who supplies the stability, knowledge, and long-term view your firm needs to survive? B players—competent, steady performers far from the limelight.”

This excerpt from an article in Harvard Business Review, titled “Let’s hear it for B Players,” truly puts into perspective how it takes the entire team to grow a company into a respectable and formidable enterprise. The article does a nice job with 'B' players; in defining them, explaining how they become the ‘backbone’ of your corporation and how to nurture them. As we always like to point out – it is people who make the company and it takes all your people to keep your company ‘firing on all cylinders.’

Enjoy the read and until next time…