Say it with me now: your products and processes are great, but your people do matter

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Here's a new academic working paper, summarized here, that basically says if you hire a "star" -- a great performer,then -- your department will be 26 percent more productive. Now, there's a huge caveat to this study: it focused on evolutionary biology departments. Those are much different …