If you as a manager can build trust with your high performance engineer with zero social skills, you can end up with a power combination. You protect the engine

If you as a manager can build trust with your high performance engineer with zero social skills, you can end up with a power combination. You protect the engineer from insane requirements and also protect the rest of the team/company from outbursts. I’ve seen it time and time again, sometime so much so that hiring the engineer also means hiring his handler, and everyone knows it and is ok with it - even the engineer.