Re:not exactly (Score 1)

Having spent a couple of years as a manager before going back to a technical position - that's not it. There is a lot of competition for resources in any large organization, and that's really what the MBA's do well. Think of it as a form of warfare. Technical superiority does nothing if you cannot sell your excellence. I've also learned to do this fairly competently, but as has been written elsewhere - it simply isn't all that fun. It's a lot of hard work to get the budgets right, to prepare presentations to defend your position, attack the opposition, etc.