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I recently heard a great story on Instagram about how Steve Jobs classified employees using an ABC model. It’s based on a simple but powerful metric: how managers feel when someone resigns.
When an A-player resigns managers feel terrible, knowing this person will be nearly impossible to replace. When a B-player leaves, the manager feels inconvenienced but confident they can find a comparable replacement fairly quickly. But when a C-player resigns it’s pure joy: a burden had been lifted, creating an opportunity to find someone stronger.
This brutally honest framework reveals an uncomfortable truth: many organizations unknowingly hire C-players, creating