Can you be talented enough on your own? One of the tremendous powers of continuous improvement and whether you want to call it Lean, Six Sigma, Agile or even Scrum is the power of the team and collaboration. Cross-functional teams create high-bandwidth communication. It is not about individual talent, though it can help, it is more about effective collaboration.
See what John Hagel, co-author of The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
Individual Talent certainly helps but when the Yankees lost all the role players in the early 2000’s it took a long time for them to re-build a team…starting with star power doesn’t hurt, but does it get you there?
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