Comment by geodel

> At some point "management" and "executive management" started (falsely) being ...

Correct. Not just CEOs I have seen it starting from position of Director and above in technical or related companies.

To hide skill gap of leadership is the cottage industry of metrics and reports where endless summaries of performance (technical, financial ... all varieties), operations, QA, development, customer feedback and myriad others are generated on daily, weekly, monthly basis. And during leadership review sessions teams are asked for 10% improvement for next quarter.

If these reports and feedback were any good, these companies would be operating like Navy seal teams by now.