[shandor]

This resonates so much with my experience.

I think it was Jim Collins in Good to Great starting with the idea that it's super important to "get the right people on the bus...and the wrong people off the bus". Which he expanded to the idea that motivated, skillful people don't actually need that much management, and that it is the mediocre and worse performers that do.

[hef19898]

One caviat I'd like to add: what the right and wrong people are depends a lot on the bus, the destination and the driver. Otherwise, I fully agree!