Astronaut Scott Kelly on smart:

“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”

“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”

It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use.