So employ and nurture weirdos. With respect to this very old fashioned thinking there are some points to be made. This absolves everyone else from needing to be creative. If only the 'weirdo breed' can be creative then there is no point, and no need, for anyone else to try. This is a very considerable danger.
Creativity is made inaccessible to everyone else.
The worship of weirdos implies the impossibility of creative skills for everyone else. This is directly contrary to my own belief that creative thinking is a skill that can be learned, practised and used deliberately. The weirdo route implies that an organisation need do nothing more about creativity than employ a few token weirdos. That now becomes sufficient action in the direction of creativity. There is now no need to get involved in training of any sort.