Beginning to think that Cal Newport's Deep Work should be read with the qualifier: "written by an academic, in a field where deep work is disproportionately rewarded; may not apply if to other professions."
That isn't to say it isn't valuable. Just that you should be careful.
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Counter-examples: the entire Project Purple (iPhone) team.
The superstar Pixar 'brain trust'.
The ENTIRE Bloomberg organisation (source: Bloomberg by Bloomberg).
Private Equity (open any random page in Barbarians at the Gate).