Spotting the weak players

I smiled at an article in The Times Magazine a while back, which explored the fortunes of a new British polo team.

Apparently, polo players are given a handicap – rather like golf, I suppose. The best players in the world are ranked as tens. Decent players have a handicap of something like four.

Now, here’s the part that amused me: the handicap system rates players “from -2 to 10″. In other words, there are players who are so bad that they are deemed to bring the whole team down, and they’re actually given a negative rating! I’m minded to propose that the same principles be applied to potential proposal team members: then again, I’ve worked with a few account managers and technical experts for whom a score of ‘minus two’ would be positively generous.

This article was written by Jon on 12 November, 2007 and filed under Musings. If you found it useful, you can with others. To receive automatic updates, subscribe to The Proposal Guys via RSS or Email.

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