Gosh... Managing 101: no one lives in a bubble. Your so-called "whaling people" are highly contextual, in skills, but also in time: who is pulling all the work

Gosh... Managing 101: no one lives in a bubble. Your so-called "whaling people" are highly contextual, in skills, but also in time: who is pulling all the work on one occasion may have been/become a drag. The "A-players is a thing" discourse too easily overlooks all the enabling/support coming from the so-called B-C-whatever-players/non-critical functions as well. No one operates in a vacuum.