Part of the problem is inserting the same standard across multiple roles; for example, mandating all managers have a college education. You don't need a colleg

Part of the problem is inserting the same standard across multiple roles; for example, mandating all managers have a college education. You don't need a college degree for most sales, customer service, and operations roles. Some of the best people managers and sales people I've met have sketchy degrees (or none at all). On the other hand, putting someone in charge of a process which is highly reliant on statistics or technology who doesn't have a college degree (or real world experience which proves ample ability) can be a total disaster. I've seen what happens when you take a non-statistical director and put them over a data science process.... they hide in familiar details (project plan! communications!) and can't understand the harder decisions involved in the role. Like does the magical black-box system even work....