“The No-Stats All-Star” by Michael Lewis (NY Times Sunday Magazine, 13 Feb 2009).  Please pardon the cliche of using sport to discuss business, but this article was particularly interesting. On one hand there’s the element of statistics and using numbers to stud, evaluate and squeeze out that last ounce of victory. On the other, there’s the idea of team – collecting the right people at the right time and producing a result where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Finally there’s the realization that the “HR” departments of many well financed sports teams fail to produce winners. Not only do they have the budget to acquire talent, they have the budget to acquire the talent that helps to pick the talent. Next time you feel like you’re coming up short with your “team” remember that you’re not the only one.