[whydoineedthis]

Have you ever seen a group of individually strong engineers accomplish nothing because they spent all thier time fighting and/or building technically correct stuff that has no business use case? I sure have.

And likewise, I have seen technically weak engineers who are capable of getting along with others deliver great output with high business value.

Imho, the fact the author calls some engineers "0's" is the type of egalitarian douchenozzelry that I have seen bring entire teams to a halt, and why I think the author comes off as a blow hard. If you think any person is a zero, the more likely truth is you don't know how to properly asses a person's skills and put them to use where they fit - and that's an eng leadership failure, not an ic failure.