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Not arguing anything in particular, just want to point out it's not completely unusual to be both. Many of the top "Chief" positions I've worked under were form

Not arguing anything in particular, just want to point out it's not completely unusual to be both. Many of the top "Chief" positions I've worked under were former PhD engineers and researchers who went and got an MBA to move up. The legendary director of JPL, Charles Elachi, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi And many of my former bosses. Maybe that's a symptom of the same disease ("without mba you cannot rule"), but I think it doesn't necessarily mean an MBA holder is a bad candidate for leadership.

cutemonster 2y ago
> went and got an MBA to move up. Interesting! (Imagine the opposite: Getting an engineering degree, to become a Fortune 500 CEO when already having an MBA. In aviation for example) > doesn't necessarily mean an MBA holder is a bad candidate for leadership Yeah, and that many MBAs might rather indicate that there are many who are really good at it? ... Although not the Boing minded ones apparently