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		river_styx on Nov 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineeri... Replace "engineers" here with occupation x, and this statement will be true from the viewpoint of every x in the world. I have been in companies where engineers with questionable managerial/leadership skills were elevated to top positions. The results weren't pretty.

13ren on Nov 18, 2008 [–]

Sounds interesting. Can you elaborate on those results? What sort of things went wrong?

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