Yes entirely. I work in the financial sector and deal with ALL levels of management that you mention above. In fact, I regularly deal with an organisation that

Yes entirely. I work in the financial sector and deal with ALL levels of management that you mention above. In fact, I regularly deal with an organisation that has 2500 managerial staff. I've been on the end of management politics for 20 years as well so I know how it works. I've watched climbers and sinkers and the climbers are ruthless and have a statistically higher quantity of MBAs between them (it's amazing what you can suck out of linkedin).