There are all sorts of ways this analogy doesn’t apply directly to the real world, but it might help pump intuitions.
Yeah, I think this model misses that people who are aiming to be strikers tend to have pretty different dispositions than people aiming to be midfielders. (And so filling a team mostly with intending-to-be-strikers could have weird effects on team cohesion & function.)
Interesting to think about how Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, etc. manage this, as they select for very high-performing recruits (all strikers) then meld them into cohesive teams. I believe they do it via:
1. having a very large recruitment pool
2. intense filtering out of people who don’t meet their criteria
3. breaking people down psychologically + cultivating conformity during training
I found it interesting to cash this out more… thanks!
Ah, so like, in the “real world”, you don’t have a set of people, you end up recruiting a training class of 80% would-be-strikers, which influences the culture compared to if you recruited for the same breakdown as the eventually-selected-team?
Yeah, I think this model misses that people who are aiming to be strikers tend to have pretty different dispositions than people aiming to be midfielders. (And so filling a team mostly with intending-to-be-strikers could have weird effects on team cohesion & function.)
Interesting to think about how Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, etc. manage this, as they select for very high-performing recruits (all strikers) then meld them into cohesive teams. I believe they do it via:
1. having a very large recruitment pool
2. intense filtering out of people who don’t meet their criteria
3. breaking people down psychologically + cultivating conformity during training
I found it interesting to cash this out more… thanks!
Ah, so like, in the “real world”, you don’t have a set of people, you end up recruiting a training class of 80% would-be-strikers, which influences the culture compared to if you recruited for the same breakdown as the eventually-selected-team?
I really enjoy the extent to which you’ve both taken the ball and run with it ;)