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Originally Posted by Harrison Richard
This take assumes that managers are not as smart as engineers because they are not adept at differential equations and linear algebra. False! MBAs are every bit as smart as engineers, they are just trained and comfortable with a different set of subjects, skills, and motivators.
It's a typical techie attitude to think that someone is not smart because they are either untrained, uninterested, or just not great with tech stuff.
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I never said the managers were not smart. I simply said the managers were not engineers and that, in this companies opinion (and mine as well), most engineers don't make good managers so they hire people with different skills to manage the engineers.
The point of my post is that these engineers I worked with were all the A+ nose to the books type of people while, in my experience, many managers were not. I'm not slamming on anyone, I'm just saying that people who focus less on getting great grades tend to be people who are a little more social and those types of people are often the kinds of people that succeed at running a business because they don't stay focused on a single task and are better at dealing with interpersonal relationships.