> As for PhDs, I have never hired one. They seem to universally have an inability to think concretely or in a step-by-step manner. Could you elaborate on why y

> As for PhDs, I have never hired one. They seem to universally have an inability to think concretely or in a step-by-step manner. Could you elaborate on why you think that "PhDs have an inability to think"? If anything, I would have thought that a PhD will be extremely methodology and think through every step (after all, that is what you are supposed to do in a PhD).