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Yes, yes, 1000 times yes. Particularly the basketball team analogy at the end of the article really resonates with me.

To anyone wondering, "How could this possibly be true? How could so many companies be getting the hiring process so wrong?" I say: it's because they aren't focused on the goal. That doens't mean companies never achieve their goals, they are simply optimizing the wrong aspects of the process.

For anyone interested, the book The Goal by Eli Goldratt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)) illustrates this phenomenon very well.

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