It isn't just the MBA types. "Only the paranoid survive" applied fractally at all levels in Intel. This meant that there were very few "anointed successors" a

It isn't just the MBA types. "Only the paranoid survive" applied fractally at all levels in Intel. This meant that there were very few "anointed successors" as people who had specialized knowledge regarded not sharing it as a survival technique. This meant that as the technical people who built things got old and retired a lot of institutional knowledge simply walked out the door. Technical excellence rests on training and sharing. Intel was the exact anathema of that.