Generally, the path to leadership should not be through MBAs or business school. It should be working your way up doing useful things.
There's too much of the path where somebody goes to a high-profile MBA school and then kind of parachutes in as a leader, but they don't actually know how things work. They could be good at powerpoint presentations and present well, but they are just not aware of what's really needed to make great products.
I don't want to trash MBAs too much. I actually do have a dual undergrad degree, business and physics at Upenn. I have direct exposure to business school. I went to undergrad business school along with physics, and I was a teaching assistant for two semesters grading MBAs and undergrads.
But I think too many people look at business school as a way to parachute into being the boss instead of earning it. I don't think that's good.[55]
I’d much rather promote someone who has strong engineering ability than so-called management ability. We do hire some MBAs, but it’s usually in spite of the MBA, not because of it.[86]
Most people in the corporate world are trying to conform to some behavioral thing that makes them seem like an android or drone. It's like being an NPC in a video game with a limited dialogue tree. An NPC is a non-player-charater in a video game that only has six options of things to say. Most corporate CEOs behave like that. Like, are you even real?[58]