Recruiting motivated, star performers builds an unstoppable, high-performance team. Rewarding technical excellence and productivity insures bottom line results. Rewarding technical skills ignores communication, leadership, innovation, teamwork, honesty and other vital components of success. Managers need technical skills equal, or superior, to those of their subordinates. People only improve their skills when forced to own their mistakes.
Blame leads to fear.
Fear stifles creativity, integrity, personal responsibility and participation.