Being an engineer does not make someone a good person, though. Engineers are perfectly able to cut corners. Putting an engineer in the CEO seat won’t solve anything if there is no culture of responsibility. The problems continued under Dennis Muilenburg, which AFAICT has 2 degrees in engineering and none in business management.

I’d actually say it’s the safety culture that’s missing. Go have a phone call with someone at Shell and they’ll ask you if you’re in a safe place to have a call and if you know where the emergency exits are before starting the call. And the safety culture comes from the top regardless of if you’re an engineer or lawyer, or finance exec.

Sounds great! I introduced bike helmets for my team members to wear at office for additional safety and everybody’s loving it!

> Exactly - management culture and engineering culture are opposite ends of a spectrum.

And that’s the crux of the problem. They actually need one another but the egos on both sides refuse to acknowledge that.