Perhaps we're getting this round the wrong way? Instead they should not have an MBA or background in finance, marketing, public relations, or any of those faux

Perhaps we're getting this round the wrong way? Instead they should not have an MBA or background in finance, marketing, public relations, or any of those faux "professional" skills that cause perfectly rational STEM thinkers to throw logic and evidence to the crows and start toadying, bamboozling and "compromising". By all means hire and delegate to necessary specialists, accountants, PR people etc. But do not head critical engineering missions with people who've lost focus because they've been corrupted. Otherwise the tail wags the dog.