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Do you treat team performance as a strong-link problem or a weak-link problem?

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Katie Burkhart
Aug 26, 2025
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Adam Mastroianni asserts there are two types of problems: strong-link problems and weak-link problems.

When you have a strong link problem, you want to focus on getting more of the best of the group because these outliers have the greatest effect. When you have a weak link problem, you want to focus on eliminating the worst of the group because those outliers have the greatest effect. Like this:

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