Great Books Ep 11: Merit vs. Lineage: Choosing the Right Person for the Job at Hand

Choosing the right person from a group, for a new opportunity, is always challenging. It is bound to antagonize someone. Discuss techniques to accomplish this while keeping everyone’s morale high.

Agamemnon king of men spoke thus: “Diomed,” said he, “son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, choose your comrade for yourself - take the best man of those that have offered, for many would now go with you. Do not through delicacy reject the better man, and take the worst out of respect for his lineage, because he is of more royal blood.”

~ The Iliad - Bo…