Picking your team

"There are no Quotes on team selection

- The times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/team-selection/quotes/)

Seriously

There is no set way in selecting your team, there is so much to consider. 

The usual way, however; is picking the people with the best individual skills picking your friends for your team.
If the team size is too small, you break the team into two, and then assign the best coders into the respective leaders and continue.

Is this the right way? Yes, and no.
No; 

because theoretically this is flawed. You will never end up with the best team suited for the task. You should get the people that are not onlyindividually good; but people who are ready to commit to work. Who will do work, and are good at being part of a team.

Yes;

because practically this is what will anyway happen. You will enjoy time with them more without working with strangers, and most improtantly of all; you will learn to work in the actual environment. You will never get a perfect team in real life, nor will you be able to create one. A perfect team is one that balances its skills and shortcomings, overcomes what skill-gaps they have and then perform to the maximal output that they are capable of synergistically. 

Just because the team consists of the best coders in the class does not mean that it is the best team around. The team needs to be driven, focussed and the members need to communicate and grow within the confines of the team to be successful. This does not require high levels of skill.

Here is where the value of a leader comes in. There is a clear difference between a manager and a leader and they should know that. Manager has his powers from the position that he holds and he has subordinates. Leaders do not have their power necessarily from the position and they have followers and not subordinates. It shows that all leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders. Therefore for the team to succeed; a good leader should be present to maintain the coherent bond between the team members. 

Realized how I used team team team everywhere instead of using the word group? This is because a group is just a bunch of people grouped together with a set of common interests or traits. A team however is a group of people that is working towards a specific goal. This goal is what the team leader should give to the followers as their ultimate view and motivate them to achieve.

Therefore, never be concerned about the people that are in your team. Take it as a challenge. As experience in working in the real industry