alt Hacker NewsThat's survivorship bias. If there are truly unique people who never get a chance to do what they would be good at, we don't hear about them.
Private sector bureaucrats are no different from government ones. The fundamental issue is that if you have a system, it's going to fail outliers. Almost by definition. And the situation is even worse if the system uses metrics for making decisions.
Well, if the statement is "we need some eccentric thinkers" then survivors suffice. We have some eccentric thinkers. If the statement is "we need more eccentric thinkers" then I think I'm going to demand the rigor of "explain why we need to increase the quantity and why your proposed intervention is the best way to get there with evidence behind it".