&gt;&gt; To make products you need a diverse set of leaders who share authority in varying decisions, not a chain of people who wrongly think themselves to be universal experts.<p>Works fine in case of actual universal experts Steve Jobs&#x27;s, Jonathan Ive&#x27;s, Larry Wall&#x27;s or Linus Torvald&#x27;s of the world.<p>That argument begins to break down when you appoint the wrong people to that job. You now have to follow orders only because some one is giving them, not because they are right.