Exactly. In fact, you NEED average people on your team to play the roles that the superstars are unwilling to play. Places like Facebook where the dirty and b

Exactly. In fact, you NEED average people on your team to play the roles that the superstars are unwilling to play. Places like Facebook where the dirty and boring work is respected and rewarded (according to a Quora post by Yishan Wong) are rare. In a lot of places, the superstars do the superstar thing, and other people do the other stuff. Good teams will always find a place for people. Ironically enough, this sometimes may even mean promoting someone with poor technical skills to management, among various other drastic measures. Their technical skills may suck, but their interpersonal skills and organizational skills may be off the charts, and they'll still have enough technical background to understand what the heck they're managing. That kind of thing. When my friend first started at Google, he commented that there seemed to be a lot of underlying impatience and discontent because Google only hired superstars, and so many superstars had to stay on the bench. Not everyone can go do the glamorous job. Various anecdotal blog posts seem to have given us that even Google hasn't been able to 100% figure it out.