But what is a Talented employee if he is close minded, dissects ever little decision, and only implements what he thinks is right according to his experience?
And frankly I do not see the case where one person is worth 100 randomly picked persons in his field.
> And frankly I do not see the case where one person is worth 100 randomly picked persons in his field.
There's a rather famous list of 5000 German physicists who signed a petition stating that Einstein's theories were junk.
I don't know how many other physicists Germany had at the time but surely that tells us something about the odds of randomly picking 100 German physicists who were collectively "worth" one Einstein.
This is going slightly offtopic, but since you're bringing up this example, can I ask you for a link/citation for that list of physicists? I'm a bit surprised by the story, since Einstein's work was I believe internationally recognised almost immediately.
(Nevertheless, the man was probably worth quite a number of randomly chosen peers indeed :))
I don't know about those 5000 physicists against Einstein, but:
> Einstein was attacked by some with anti-Jewish leanings. When a pamphlet was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, Einstein retorted "If I were wrong, one would be enough."
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Einstein.html
And frankly I do not see the case where one person is worth 100 randomly picked persons in his field.