Great teams are more than the assembly of great people. On the contrary, great teams are ultimately grown, not gathered.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
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This concept—a bunch of smaller things joining together to form a giant that can function as more than the sum of its parts—is called emergence.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
So they figured out a cool trick. By joining together with other single cells, they could form a giant creature that had all kinds of new advantages.