One of the points that Sydney Finkelstein carries in "Superbosses" is not really news - I have not been able to find out where it originally came from, but this does do not necessarily make the point uninteresting:
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.
Of course, there are exceptions - school teachers are obvious examples - but otherwise it makes good sense: if you aren't in the company of people you can learn from, then you have not chosen the right companions.
But you can argue that then there will of course at any time in any group of people be a person who should not be there? Fortunately, I do not think it's that bad. For it may well be that when it comes to some fields, a person is the smartest in the room - while being a novice in other fields and thereby easily able to learn a great deal from some of the others.
The point can therefore equally correctly be interpreted in the way that at any time, one should surround oneself with a wide range of different people with different skills and areas of interest - so that at any time, there are fields in which one can learn from the people one is surrounded with, and thus, one will always be in the right room.
(Translated from I det rigtige rum)
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