Senior management's skill set is fundamentally not technical competence, business competence, financial competence, or even leadership competence. It's politics

Senior management's skill set is fundamentally not technical competence, business competence, financial competence, or even leadership competence. It's politics and social skills (or less charitably, schmoozing). Executives haven't cared about the "how" of anything to do with their business since the last generation of managers from before the cult of the MBA aged out