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Posted by racerguy on January 4, 2008 at 19:20:20:
>>And Chinese political leaders are mainly engineers.<<

Well, that's true. They are also Communists, and dishonest, and corrupt. If you're trying to convince me of the superiority of engineers, you picked a very bad example.

Speaking of bad example:

>>And in USA Chrysler was saved some years by Iaccoca, an engineer becoming salesman.<<

Saved? You mean by Iaccoca's desperate plea to the US Government to bail out his horribly mismanaged corporation? The same corporation that continued to do so badly that it later was the first and only US automaker to be acquired (and subsequently dumped) by a foreign corporation?

Anyway, you said, "Most German, Japanese and Chinese companies...," yet here you are talking about an American company - which, by the way, is currently managed by a businessman with an MBA.

>>Many engineers have later learned finance or MBA<<

Yes, I know. I'm one of those people. The thing is, I'm no longer an engineer - I'm a businessman. My engineering background is quite helpful though - I am able to easily recognize and deal with the limitations and shortcomings of engineers :-)

>>the reverse is rare.<<

Absolutely, and there's a very good reason for that. Why would a successful businessperson limit their options and pigeonhole themselves by giving up a lucrative career to become an engineer? Engineers are by and large nothing more than a commodity these days. You can't swing a dead cat in Bangalore without hitting four or five hundred of them.