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Response: If you've got 16 employees and at least two are turkeys, you're lousy at recruitment and should put more thought and effort into this most important managerial skill.

Posted by Mark JF at December 22, 2006 11:38 AM

Gobble gobble as TG would say [try & locate him & his front-liner largesse] ...

Posted by sean_turkey at December 22, 2006 11:59 AM

Better: If you've got 16 employees, and two of them are turkeys, one of them is you.

Posted by Joe Marier at December 22, 2006 12:10 PM

Maybe you've simply stuffed your employees :-)

Posted by Trevor Gay at December 22, 2006 12:27 PM

Stuffing your employees is a great idea, particularly around Christmas. Hooray for food!

Posted by Joe Marier at December 22, 2006 12:39 PM

Google, Starbucks, Nordstrom may be exceptions - their scrutiny for TALENT is exhaustive ...

Posted by sean_google at December 22, 2006 1:08 PM

My real point: People may well be "misfits" in any particular situation. They are NOT "turkeys." (See my Tip #79 in a recent Post.)

Posted by tom peters at December 23, 2006 6:34 AM

I am not sure we recruit and hire turkeys...but instead manufacture them once we have them on the payroll. I have seen a lot of inspired and great talent drained by the insane policies, practices, and systems of so many corporations. Want them turkeys to fly? Give them work that matters, decent resources, and get the hell outta their way...

Posted by Mike Neiss at December 23, 2006 8:25 AM

As usual Mike, spot on! Thanks for your fabulous contributions to tompeters.com! Happy holidays!

Posted by tom peters at December 23, 2006 3:43 PM

Jack Welch?

Posted by Mike at December 26, 2006 11:06 AM

"As long as the turkeys aren't being told they're turkeys, they don't mind. But you have to tell them about it, and the earlier you tell them in their careers, the better."
- Jack Welch

Posted by Amit G. at December 26, 2006 4:42 PM

If you manage 16:2 ratio in terms of your recruitment/management then actually you doing pretty well.

My favorite scenario is where the "turkeys" are moved to a different manager and become super stars.......

Trevor isn't stuffing your employees an HR violation?

Posted by PaulH at December 27, 2006 8:18 AM