Actually, what he describes is just ‘common sense’ from people that think for themselves. The problem is that these people don’t do well in the education-hiring-promotion pipeline. They’re seen as disagreeable and threatening. You can’t change a 100-week project into a 4-week result without trashing a lot of people’s big ideas. They might have one home run, but then get isolated into a corner because nobody wants their work criticized. Then they learn to keep quiet and count out the days to retirement just like everybody else.