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BostonWorks - The HR Blog: "When employers aren't busy weeding out the bottom 10% of their workforce, they've been trying to steal the A players from the competition in a battle to lure the best. But some of those employers are coming around to the realization that failure and success might not lie among the weakest and strongest links, but in the solid middle, the B players like Joel, the 75% of workers who have been all but ignored. Companies have been trying to capture what organizational intelligence consultant Adrian Savage calls the 'unicorns,' but the focus is starting to shift to the horses, the B players. "