“Your team is far more important to achieving excellence than any new technology and likely more important than brilliant product ideas. We agree with Ed Catmull, computer scientist and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, when he wrote, ‘If you give a great idea to a mediocre1 team, they’ll screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they’ll make it work.'”
Designing the Future by James M. Morgan and Jeffery K. Liker (McGraw Hill, 2019), p. 137.
- Mediocre means “Of only moderate quality; not very good.” ↩︎