It's interesting to have pulled out the "Right Hand" archetype. Too often this distinction is ignored and everyone tries to align to the senior executive. All

It's interesting to have pulled out the "Right Hand" archetype. Too often this distinction is ignored and everyone tries to align to the senior executive. All the other archetypes can be independent, as in the company can pay them to do their mission even if the executive is not engaged. I suspect it is time we stopped seeing companies as lead by an executive as the tip of a spear and more as a crowd with an agreed direction. Edit: I would also suggest that Staff Engineer is the next step on what I would call Software Literate Companies - it's not that we need execs who are not day to day technical supported by people who are. It's that we need execs who are day to day technical and not have ones who cannot code.