A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
When I started my career I was told the “leadership” career path goes higher than the technical career path. Then, again and again, I was reminded that being loud was rewarded more than being smart.
Multiply this “culture of leadership” across all of industry and here we are. Top it off with “everyone but executives are overhead and expendable” and it doesn’t pay to be good at something. You get the brain drain you see before you.
When I started my career I was told the “leadership” career path goes higher than the technical career path. Then, again and again, I was reminded that being loud was rewarded more than being smart.
Multiply this “culture of leadership” across all of industry and here we are. Top it off with “everyone but executives are overhead and expendable” and it doesn’t pay to be good at something. You get the brain drain you see before you.