This is a really tough problem to solve. If the company has amazing leaders, the leaders can correctly judge the depth of the problem and its impact, therefore

This is a really tough problem to solve. If the company has amazing leaders, the leaders can correctly judge the depth of the problem and its impact, therefore rewarding the problem solver properly. Unfortunately promotion is really a tool for most leaders to advance their agenda. In a way Google invented this "solving complex problems" just to counter balance the misaligned incentives of the leaders, but to no avail.