Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America
He is onto something there. Bean counting is useful and companies cannot survive without good cashflow, but it should not become Mission A of the company, or engineering (and other) talent will look elsewhere.<p>If one company's de facto mission statement is "We want to grow our market by 8.2 per cent and give our bosses higher Christmas bonuses" and another one comes and says "Guys, we want to fly to fscking Mars!", chances are that people like Tom Mueller [0] or Gwynne Shotwell [1] will choose the latter.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell</a>