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Plus A players have a tendency to care a lot more about their own knowledge that it allowed Steve Jobs to yell at them to improve their efficiency.

If Jobs yelled at a typical B player or corporate drone, they would just take it and go on and maybe sit at the bar wallowing in their sorrows.

With A players, Jobs would tap into their insecurity that they might not be smart enough causing them to want to learn more to close that insecurity which then allows then to produce a better product. Their fear that they may not be smart enough would cause them to become even smarter.

Jobs needed A players otherwise his "motivational techniques" would fall flat.




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