I wrote the other day about some of the reasons why small teams of outstanding people might be more effective than larger teams of average people.

Maybe in a perfect world we could all agree. The rub though is that in practice, finding outstanding people and getting them to work for you can be tricky. [Read more…] about The Role of Luck in Hiring

Thumbing through a copy of Revolutionizing IT: The Art of Using Information Technology Effectively, one thing was singled out as a core principle and repeated a couple of times:

A modest number of outstanding people are more valuable than a large number of average ones.

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