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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Work harder to recruit more. Simple solution.
If you make everything into black and white, hard work solves everything 
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One pregnant woman takes 9 months to have a baby.
Nine pregnant women still take 9 months to have a baby.
"If it can't be done with brains, it won't be done with hours" - Kelly Johnson (or something like that, the internet doesn't seem to agree on the original phrasing)
On the other hand, I agree with the sentiment. Not everyone can be a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffett. But you can be absolutely sure that Bill and Warren wouldn't be where they are today if they were lazy. Hard work is a necessary prerequisite for luck.
Ether has mentioned books by
Malcolm Gladwell before, I read them and Gladwell has lots of good ideas on the subject.
Mostly Unrelated:
This is my favorite comic, and it ties in directly with comments about aerospace not being able to afford mistakes. I think you certainly work to avoid mistakes, but not making any is impossible. That is why aerospace requires so much testing, as when you do make an error you want to catch it in a non-critical situation.