[somedudetbh]

"I don't have a large enough sample nor have I polled enough people to have high confidence that this works as a general algorithm but, for finding groups of world-class experts, what's worked for me is finding excellent managers. The two teams I worked on with the highest density of world-class experts have been teams under really great management. I have a higher bar for excellent management than most people and, from having talked to many people about this, almost no one I've talked to has worked for or even knows a manager as good as one I would consider to be excellent (and, general, both the person I'm talking to agrees with me on this, indicating that it's not the case that they have a manager who's excellent in dimensions I don't care about and vice versa); from discussions about this, I would guess that a manager I think of as excellent is at least 99.9%-ile. How to find such a manager is a long discussion that I might turn into another post.

@luu-- I'm sure a lot of people on here besides me would be very curious to read your thoughts on what distinguished these managers from the others, and how you would identify one (nevermind find one).