I think this is very very important.<p>I'm myself suffering having made such a move. I get things done very fast, my cofounder doesn't. It makes me more tired every day, as I see that every problem that arises (or anything new that has to be created, administrated) will eventually end up on my shoulders. I do the programming, administration, legal work, financing etc... Everything we sell, all our intellectual property was created by me.<p>Also in our business plan (which he spent like 4-5 months working in it), we should already be ultra profitable right now. But guess where we stand. And this journey already takes over 1 1/2 years.<p>I guess it's time for a change soon. I wish I would have been much more careful choosing whom to start my business with.
Nice generalization that doesn't address the question of just what constitutes an A-player vs. B,C, and Losers and why I should think that an A-player in one situation will continue to be an A-player in another or if, given the right incentives, whether a B,C,Loser can become an A-player.
If A players hire A players and B players hire C players, how do the B players ever get hired?<p>Yes, I'm being facetious. But even fortune-cookie level business advice should pass basic sanity checks like this one.
If you want to know what kind of player you are, think about how you respond to difficult situations or poorly done work. If you feel anger or kind of OK with it, then you're all but A player.<p>On the other hand, if you feel an urge to do the best possible move then you end up doing the work yourself, eventually turning into a star, or you hire these who can do better then you. That way you get the A score.