Fair enough, but at the same time when you start getting to the level where they don't know about the details they need to start trusting the people below them

Fair enough, but at the same time when you start getting to the level where they don't know about the details they need to start trusting the people below them to make decisions and take their advice. Far too often you see technically incompetent CEOs making far reaching decrees about technical issues they know nothing about because of some random brain fart they overheard on the golf course with one of their buddies.