I like this idea. I think we can dismiss the most literal/extreme interpretation of this (as most commenters seem to be doing), but when I look at most of us I find we are more likely to forecast with overconfidence than underconfidence (tech X will destroy the company, or NOT using x will destroy the company).

I remember working at a place and our whole data-team (myself included) seemed like a useless waste a dozen engineers. I thought the company was adrift. A few years later it was bought for billions of dollars because the business people knew exactly how to threaten a dominant player in the market. And I realized my henny-penny attitude was complete noise, I just was out-of-the-loop about what the long-term play was.

I think a lot of this is that we each want to be the center of our own universe, we want our problems to be the THE problems, and to some degree understand that peddling our advice about tech X or Y is to some degree advancing our own influence.