That is an extremely long post that says "hire the rock stars". Except, of course, we all cannot only hire the very best, transformative people (like Jeff Dean at Google). And, he has no way to actually identify them, except "ask around".
It's entirely unrealistic as a business strategy. It sure is nice if you luck into it.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...