I have a friend who skipped castes with impressive speed; his trick was getting a Harvard MBA, which put him in the club. First job with the MBA was a VP posit

I have a friend who skipped castes with impressive speed; his trick was getting a Harvard MBA, which put him in the club. First job with the MBA was a VP position at an SF tech firm. He's super smart but I have a feeling this would be a generally applicable strategy, if you can afford it and really do want to be in the executive caste.