What matters more if you want to build a great soccer team — how good your best soccer player is or how good your best player is?
Weak-link vs Strong-link game
Malcolm Gladwell: My Little Hundred Million
Soccer is a game where it matters how good your weakest player is: weak-link
Basketball is the opposite: a superstar can drive the team: strong-link
We would do better by upgrading our weak airports than adding onto our biggest (Denver)
Britain had an advantage in the industrial revolution because it had the most craftsman.
A weak link strategy is not going to be a glamorous one.