Both innate talent and hard work are orthogonal to achieving desired outcomes (and you can get there with either). If your talent or efforts are pointing in the wrong direction, you won't get to the outcome, regardless of how well-meaning the intentions might be. If we talk about companies, it's not uncommon to be rewarded for outcomes, vs talent or hard work (a hard pill to swallow for many hard workers, in my experience). This of course requires a system of measuring outcomes, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.