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There is plenty of evidence that engineers in the CEO seat are effective drivers of companies and shareholder value. This is false equivalence reasoning presented over and over in this thread and I dare say this opinion is quite antiquated and precisely the thinking that has put Boeing on its current destructive course.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insead/2014/05/29/why-engineers...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/22/more-top-...




If you have a great engineer and executive take them. But if not, the choice is by no means clear then.

The CEO being an engineer is not sufficient for success.


I never took this position.

Your core arguments are ever changing throughout this thread, and on every reply.


Not really. My arguments have been pretty consistent that being an engineer and being a good CEO are not really linked. Some engineers are good CEO, so are some MBAs, physcians, ...


I literally just gave you the evidence that they are linked in the sample of the top 100 performing companies.


And I responded multiple times that that just shows that engineers can be good CEOs, nothing more.


K. Cool.




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