"It's a hundred times easier to build a x10 team than it is to find and hire a single x10 engineer."
It's a side comment, yet this remark brings the research on Collective Intelligence as a relevant reference.
Teams that are highly collectively intelligent (i.e., they excel at solving complex problems):
- are better at solving problems than the most intelligent (as in IQ) person on the team
- consist of people who aren't necessarily highly intelligent individuals
- their team members are perceptive of others
- their team members create an environment in which everyone's heard
While it is aligned with "it's easier to build a high-performing team than to find a high-performing individual," it actually goes further. Collective Intelligence beats individual intelligence even for teams that do not excel in this criterion.
Betting on a team rather than a precious few individuals is both safe and advantageous.
BTW, Google's Project Aristotle, while they didn't refer to the same definitions/language, confirmed the same observations, so it's not just psychology study.
"It's a hundred times easier to build a x10 team than it is to find and hire a single x10 engineer."
It's a side comment, yet this remark brings the research on Collective Intelligence as a relevant reference.
Teams that are highly collectively intelligent (i.e., they excel at solving complex problems):
- are better at solving problems than the most intelligent (as in IQ) person on the team
- consist of people who aren't necessarily highly intelligent individuals
- their team members are perceptive of others
- their team members create an environment in which everyone's heard
While it is aligned with "it's easier to build a high-performing team than to find a high-performing individual," it actually goes further. Collective Intelligence beats individual intelligence even for teams that do not excel in this criterion.
Betting on a team rather than a precious few individuals is both safe and advantageous.
BTW, Google's Project Aristotle, while they didn't refer to the same definitions/language, confirmed the same observations, so it's not just psychology study.
Great job catching this part and thanks for expanding on it! I knew just this one-liner deserves a full post and hoped people would pick up on it.