You are only partly right: if I am an engineer and you are the CEO, my job is to do my engineering part and your job as CEO includes (but not only) to maximize

You are only partly right: if I am an engineer and you are the CEO, my job is to do my engineering part and your job as CEO includes (but not only) to maximize shareholder value. If your job becomes the problem, the focus and the constraint for everyone, including me as an engineer, then you get to Boeing situation. It is nothing wrong for the company leaders to be interested about shareholder values, but it is wrong to make it the only purpose in life for all employees.