The same principle—the power of a talent cluster—seemed to apply to famous teams across many different disciplines. In business, there were the Nine Old Men who built Walt Disney’s animation studio, for example, or the programmers who developed Google’s search algorithm. Historians often cite the general brilliance of the framers of the U.S. Constitution. Scientists point to the three-nation Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear weapon, the Oxford University team that developed penicillin, and the small knot of Soviet engineers who designed the Sputnik satellite. These groups
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