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How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)
Founder's Journal
Effectiveness of Organizations and the Role of Barrels
The number of 'barrels' in an organization, which represent the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously, is crucial in determining the effectiveness and productivity. While most organizations have few barrels, successful ones have more barrels which enable them to achieve multiple goals in parallel. The number of barrels, not the number of people, acts as the limiting factor in accomplishing tasks efficiently. Hiring more people without increasing the number of barrels can lead to decreased productivity and coordination issues, hindering the organization's ability to work in parallel effectively.
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