My complaint (and I suspect many others&#x27;) is with the idea that someone who has studied the discipline of &quot;business&quot; is qualified to run <i>any</i> business, regardless of what it does. That they know better than, and should have authority over, the people who are actually domain experts in what the business does.<p>When we complain about empty-suit MBAs running a software company, that&#x27;s assuming the suits are <i>just</i> MBAs, not engineers who also got MBAs. They have no skill in or respect for the craft of programming, they probably don&#x27;t even understand what it consists of, and yet they are in charge and the programmers are not.<p>Working for a technical or formerly technical manager, rather than an MBA who studied Information Systems 10 years ago and reads InfoWorld, as if that qualifies him to be CIO&#x2F;CTO, is in large part what draws people to Silicon Valley and away from corporate IT departments.