[Ouderkirk]

As an engineer the newly minted MBA is the bane of my existence. They are soooo stupid.

They follow the playbook of things they learned, set up their silly plan run it and it produces results. Then they get promoted and are long gone when the program hits the wall that we all knew was coming. We the experienced professionals have to pick up the pieces, and explain to upper management what went wrong. When you point out that the program was doomed from day one because it didn’t have a long term vision, the other MBA’s circle the wagons.

[pierrem15]

What you've stated is really part of the core problem: we have a business culture that creates perverse incentives for short term gain for the managers at the long term cost of shareholders, workers and the company as a whole.

A lot of managers and executives seem to act like some strange tribe of pirates who don't give hoot if the ship sinks after they've grabbed their booty.