"If you're ambitious and good at office politics and self-promotion, it's entirely possible - maybe even easier - to pass from junior programmer to executive ma

"If you're ambitious and good at office politics and self-promotion, it's entirely possible - maybe even easier - to pass from junior programmer to executive management without actually passing through a stage of technical competence. It's a sort of turbo-charged Peter Principle that operates in the software industry." This feels so true at every business and academic institution I've worked for. My last CIO was a lawyer....