Fish Food for Thought
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Price's Law — the claim that half of all output comes from the square root of contributors — is one of the most quoted and misapplied ideas in management. The original bibliometric formula was never well-supported by data, and the popular workplace version has drifted far from what Derek de Solla Price actually measured. The real danger is not failing to identify top performers; leaders already know their names. The danger is overloading and under-supporting them until they leave. Boris Groysberg's decade-long study of Wall Street analysts showed that star performance is partly a property of the surrounding system — relationships, institutional memory, team quality — not purely individual. This means leaders can build more of it. The piece argues for three obligations: protect high performers from being crushed by their own competence, understand the systemic conditions enabling their output, and invest in the broad middle to widen the circle of capable people rather than guarding a fragile inner few.
