In big organizations, it’s common for the CEO to be out of touch and overconfident. So, CEOs either by temperament or due to the nature of for-profit corporations, make decisions that favor maximizing ROI and minimizing the value of human life.

Today’s most high profile example is Boeing. But this goes back to Ford in the 1960, when Ralph Nadar discovering internal communications of executives how many accidents and deaths in a Corvette would still result in a strong bottom line. Of course, bad management pre-dates even that by millennia.

This MBA realized (long ago) that management, and especially upper management, is usually terrible. Unless you value money more than life.