I know exactly the superstar type. They are wizards, and they do get the props they deserve....but often cause more in-fighting, whispers and controversy than they're worth.

I was once brought onto a job as a superstar (of a fairly easy position, which was almost insulting) and I had to work to get rid of that reputation. People called me "Ace" from day one just because I aced the phone interview well enough to get hired sight unseen. But I could feel the aprehension about me as I met the rest of the group, so I had made sure to work at making it clear that I didn't think i was anythign special. Overall it was annoying.

But it's definately true that the best people I've worked with are the ones that are well rounded in ability, ethic, social skills, and communication over people who excel in one area.

Tips for 21st Century Workers
The word “employee” is out of date. If you want to get a job, you must be willing to be a professional in the company – not a peon. This means that while working, you must expend thought into how to improve the company – not just on the task at hand. Peons are the first to go when layoffs occur.
You must also think of yourself as a contractor. This means you are the one responsible for your well-being and your family’s well-being. It’s not the responsibility of your employer to take care of you. This means that while you have a job, you must be thinking of the future and where this job is taking you and what your plan is if you suddenly loose your job. This may mean that you need to put some money into savings instead of spending it on entertainment activities and products so that it will be available to you if you do loose your job.
Any politician that tells you that the government will take care of you and your family is lying. The government may take care of you for a bit, but there’s no way it can take care of the entire population without going totally into communism. Sooner or later, out of necessity, the government will cut out its social programs to balance its budget or it will become a totally communist government. In either case, if you’re depending upon the government, then you’re up a creek. Even if you opt to depend upon the government it will never provide you with the life you and your family deserve. You may be able to survive but you will never thrive when depending upon the government.
Your professional skills must be so good and you must have the tools available so if you were to loose your job tomorrow, you could quickly “hang a shingle” and start your own business the next day. You should have a plan to market yourself so you could call any business and say, “You need me and here’s why.”
Working 8-5 and then going home and forgetting about your professional skills will send you to the unemployment line faster than you think. Successful professionals spend their off-time (defined as holidays, vacations, weekends, and evenings) cultivating relationships with their families and friends, sleeping, doing household chores, then improving their professional skills. Successful professionals spend very little if any off-time in frivolous activities such as watching TV, surfing the Internet, or playing computer games.
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin.
The choices you make in your personal life affect your professional life. If you have a spouse and children younger than 10 then either you our your spouse should stay home to be with them. There’s nothing more frustrating to an employer than an employee calling in sick because he/she has a sick child. Businesses are getting tired of coddling to their employees’ personal needs – especially when too many of them don’t spend time increasing their professional skills. If one spouse stays home and takes care of the children, then the other spouse can be properly focused on his/her profession which will keep the family is in balance. And no, lack of money is not an excuse. There’s always a way to balance a budget on one income today, though you may have to forgo some luxuries in the process. Ask many families that are doing it today.
"Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men." – Proverbs 22:29.

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