No worries. I didn't mean to sound angry. I appreciate the apology, didn't think it was necessary, and understand where you're coming from. I think you have valid points. I am very bad at reading and writing tone in quick comments online. I agree that having accountants and mba types in charge isn't a great idea most of the time or that accountants are necessarily the best people on average, but I am wee bit biased here against such blanket statements regarding my profession, as an accountant anyways.
It was originally created by Kelly but he managed to transmit the spirit to a successor, who wrote an interesting book about his time (80's and 90's) called 'stealth'. If you look on Google you can find the PDF.
Another book about organisations having to deal with ossification is 'the soul of a new machine'. It's written by a journalist that was embedded in a R&D department of a computer manufacturer in the 70's and 80's. The place is run by someone a lot like Kelly Johnson, and the author managed very well to get into his mind. Again, I believe you can find a PDF on Google.
The time period doesn't quite match up, but I found Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316743003/ to be quite interested if not quite as interesting as I'd hoped when I bought it.
And you cannot have engineers running everything because then you will have a half-built Concorde and a bankrupt company.
But there is a balance. And if that balance tips for too long, you end up with the whole organisation content with just doing maintenance. And when that happens there is just no going back.