Historically there was a school of thought in business where sales is everything and every other role is interchangeable and secondary. It&#x27;s still very common on the east coast. All you need is a couple extroverted dominant personalities and everything else will just take care of itself.<p>It doesn&#x27;t work very well, and it tends to result in a very toxic culture. You get a restaurant that&#x27;s packed on opening day but the food sucks, or there&#x27;s no food and the sales guys run across the street to McDonald&#x27;s in desperation and try to pass it off as high cuisine. Then they blame everyone else.<p>Now that tech types often found and run companies I think we have an opposing and probably retaliatory mindset emerging. Now all you need is a few super genius engineers and the rest... well...<p>Unfortunately this doesn&#x27;t work well either and also tends to result in a toxic culture. You get a restaurant with five star food and a lot of empty seats. Everyone else tends to get blamed here too.<p>In a healthy company you have a culture that respects the need for a wide variety of skills.