How does team size affect work quality?

28 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "How does team size affect work quality?" (created 2025-02-28T21:31:45Z). The excerpt is a single-speaker segment in which the speaker discusses how mergers and acquisitions and adding headcount can dilute company quality, arguing that only a small percent of employees are true "A players" (anecdotally 10–15%) while the remainder are B and C players. The content reads like a short talk or opinion piece about hiring, team size, and organizational quality.

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Keep in mind that when you do mergers and acquisitions, when you're buying other companies, you're throwing people at the problem, right? The problem is the more people you add, the more it dilutes the quality of the company because the more people you have, the more room there is for error. And it's just not going to happen in terms of having A players across the board for thousands and thousands of employees, right? Everyone's an A player. That's just not the case. In fact, I've talked to people in the past that have been a part of these big agencies and they think maybe, you know, if they're lucky, maybe 10 to 15% of people are A players and the rest are maybe B and C players. So that's 85% of people that are B players and C players.