Developers, Businesspeople, and Dead Weight

I like the overall message of the post, but slightly disagree with the statement that measuring business people is more difficult. It's just different (in terms of criteria and methods) and that's where the difficulties come from. Especially if you aren't the business person.

This author answers his own question--why are engineers valued over business people--when he writes:<p>&#62;&#62; You can fake business knowledge. You can't fake programming knowledge.