Team building

Eric and Jessica discuss who should be the third member of their panel.

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Eric: Patel? He talks too much. Goes on and on. Always goes way over his allotted time. Johanna is good.

Jessica: But culturally insensitive. Even when she is surrounded by Muslims, she’ll still order pork.

Eric: Geoffrey knows his stuff, but he’s prickly, won’t enter into discussions, just grunts and nods.

Jessica: If we have Patel talk after us, at the end, just brief him to summarize and comment on what we’ve said?

Eric: Might work. We’ll just have to put up with him shuffling his papers and looking at his watch and ostentatiously clearing his throat while we’re talking.

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Voiceover

The speed of a convoy is that of its slowest ship. We do well to remember this when putting together a team.

Everybody has strengths and weaknesses.

It’s just a question of placing someone on a team where their abilities are used, but their idiosyncracies are neutralized.

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