Management Ideas - Content from the Archives https://www.mgmtideas.com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2026-04-20 Use this RSS feed to keep up with current and archived content on the Management Ideas site Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:07:05 UTC Archived Idea: Find the Smartest People in Your Organization https://www.mgmtideas.com/find-the-smartest-people-in-your-organization/ https://www.mgmtideas.com/logo.png Management Ideas https://www.mgmtideas.com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2026-04-20 How do you find the smartest people in an organization? As we all know, intelligence does not always correspond to current job title. And in an technology company such as Novell, the real brilliant guys and gals are engineers hidden many layers below the top. Here's how Eric Schmidt found them, as he told Harvard Business Review in 2001. “I used a kind of algorithm to locate … [ Read more ]

Author: Sean Silverthorne
Source: Find the Smartest People in Your Organization
Original Publication: Harvard Business Review
Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Original article: Find the Smartest People in Your Organization © Equinox Enterprises (Jeff Blum)

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