"hire for agency" could also be rewritten as "train for agency", the very reason Japanese auto makers are at the pinnacle of the game for reliability - workers at every level are empowered to impose their sense of quality over the entire pipeline.

This flies in the face of typical corporate strategy, which hires drones to do the bidding of the "head thinker". It requires those at the top to be able to set aside their egos when a lower-ranking employee hits the STOP button or provides good reasoning why the current plan is flawed. It cannot work in a company where those "at the top" consider themselves superior to their "underlings" and blatantly ignore their input. Ask me, I know.