krtlandt

The article assumes that managers of software high performers have the same quality as Tiger Wood's coach. Nothing is further from the truth.

In general, I feel that the article is geared towards making the high performer work harder and ignoring his often legitimate complaints. It does not address the question why high performers sometimes get irritable. The reasons can range from people intriguing against them with lies to being underappreciated.

"Cutting off the oxygen" is a one-sided and primitive measure.

It can even be seen from the outside if you observe the actual output of high ranking Googlers in open source projects and compare that with their status at Google.

Some are just nasty politicians that produce neither quality nor quantity.

Didn't they make John Carmack leave? Obviously I do not know Meta's internal projects, but the open source ones often have a poor quality and the main metric appears to be LOC (or KLOC in the case of those geniuses).