Executives ascend the power/respect ladder by persuading, selling, influencing, meeting, communicating, negotiating with people, and winning over others. Now you have this tech person who has achieved similar power/status by not being good at any of those things. Tech people gain power/respect by studying, doing, building, understanding technology. People tend to like/respect people with qualities they want or respect. Reminds me of the Oppenheimer and Groves situation in which both sides must gain mutual respect for each other to be successful. https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p4s2...