Ludic

...professional become CEO's rather than consultants? I've been doing a lot of studying into operations research and system engineering and I concluding they're nearly the same thing with a few minor differences. Source: http://vperdigon.blogspot.com/2009/11/systems-engineering-vs-operations.html And after looking into the job discriptions of the two, it seems like you're really advanced consultants that higher management would seek advice from. But if you're really that skilled with mathematical and computational models, why aren't these people (OR & SE pros) running everything rather than being a consultant? I would imagine an OR/SE pro to have a better skill set than some MBA type. Would an analogy be comparable to a ship-nagivator vs ship-captain?