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Susan Lucia Annunzio:
I haven't met the company whose own people don't know how to fix it. But they're afraid to tell because they think they're going to get fired. There's something fundamentally wrong in that equation.

Susan Annunzio, author of the book Contagious Success, says a fundamental flaw in many businesses today is that managers believe success comes from having and developing high performance individuals.

But it's not about the individual; it's about the group and the dynamics within that group. Because today's decisions are really difficult. The answers aren't in the head of one person - it's the collaboration of different kinds of ideas that drive success.

What happens in many organizations is that managers break up high performance groups. Why?

Well, I think what the company thinks is, it's the individual. I think they thought, "well here's a good group of high potentials, let's break them up and spread these high potentials throughout the company and then we'll get more." But when you take away the dynamics of the group, it's hit or miss. They don't understand that high-performing groups are a composite of different kinds of people and when you take away some of those people that create the environment, you take away the brain power.

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