"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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Several years ago, GM replaced the usual business-degree type with an
honest to God slide-rule/pocket protector engineer as CEO and damn near
destroyed the company.

Oh...maybe Alfred Sloan? :~)


Just because you have the ability to work (and perhaps even flurish...)
within a given system, does not automatically qualify you to oversee said
system.

Just my $0.02 worth from the cheap seats.

And as John Deakin has pointed out in his columns on AvWeb, TCM and Lycoming
have gone from engineers running the company to business (MBA types?) and
damn near (some may say "completely") ruined the company.

Some engineers are good leaders/managers and many professional managers can
only produce short term benefits that ruin the companies in the long term.