Can't non-technical managers study up? The wealthiest entrepreneur and fierce manager in Taiwan back in 60s/70s was a man who only finished elementary school d

Can't non-technical managers study up? The wealthiest entrepreneur and fierce manager in Taiwan back in 60s/70s was a man who only finished elementary school during war-torn Taiwan. But he could detect bullshit miles away. After Chinese nationalist took over Taiwan from Japanese, he started petroleum cracking business. One interesting anecdote was that a science guy was presenting to him some shiny new process with some fancy reaction formulas. He frowned and whip out pencil and paper. He started to pick apart the scientist's formulas and mansplained to that scientist how that process may not work in his plant due to this and that in your equation requires this and that, which is too costly, etc. That scientist lived to tell the tale.