Hiring is key. I liked the note about the Lake Wobegon hiring strategy here: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html http:/

Hiring is key. I liked the note about the Lake Wobegon hiring strategy here: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg... Hiring below the mean of the people at your company will cause tolerance for less talented hires to increase. Worse people hire worse people. Smart people should be instructed to only hire really smart people. This way, you'll never get the feedback loop of degrading quality. So the theory goes.