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> Why are they in leadership roles? No clue

Because, IMO, there's a large overlap between being an irrational person and also being likable and smart sounding.

Confidence doesn't actually come from being good, it comes from being delusional. In order to truly market yourself you need a healthy disdain for the truth. You spit on reality and create your own.

Engineers and other rational-minded people have a big problem - they're too honest. They do feasibly analysis, they look at risks, they talk about weaknesses, pros and cons. But this doesn't strike confidence, quite the opposite - it makes the business folk weary. Why go with you, who estimates 10% chance of failure, when they can go with Mark, who says it's guaranteed to work?

Extrapolate that across all decisions and boom, the people at the top are usually the most irrational. It doesn't really matter that it's all a lie because when everyone walks out of that boardroom, they feel comforted.