It seems to me when the company is stable, and the efficiencies come mostly from organising a large workforce MBA's do well. That is what they have been traine

It seems to me when the company is stable, and the efficiencies come mostly from organising a large workforce MBA's do well. That is what they have been trained to do. Presumably that is what the like doing. But that all goes to pot when the technology is changing so fast, the battle between companies becomes a battle about who advances technology fastest. In a battle fought over engineering, the engineers have a home ground advantage. It's impossible not to notice that Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook were all founded by true nerds and when you here their leaders speak, most engineers feel right at home with their reasoning. When Microsoft changed their leadership to a non-nerd, it started to wither and die. Fortunately for them, they fixed that.