It is possible to "press on" in the wrong direction.
Kind of like how virtually all great cooking requires salt, but use of salt goes not guarantee a great dish.
- Will Smith
My take is that talent is a potential, without practice it is left unrealised and never turns into skill, nor success.
Then people look at success and say "well person P has natural talent, I don't, so I can't do that", which is very sad, because ultimately it's mostly about a shit ton of work, and dedication, and commitment, and persistence.
I work in a relatively 'flat hierarchy' so there are few organisational structures and proceedings that keep projects on track. It's only me that keeps the marble on the track, there are no organisational tracks. Once I lose interest or stamina the marble is gone.
Other organisations with regular check-ins, project tracking etc. have a system that at least keeps the marble in place.
From "Courage to Create" by Rollo May: "It is said that the novelist Thomas Wolfe, who was one of the highly creative figures of the American scene, that he was a "genius without talent." But he was so creative because he threw himself so completely in the material and the challenge of saying it-he was great because of the intensity of his encounter"
Apologies going philosophical, its the only way to debate such an answer-science has no real answers for this title we call "staff engineer"