said then following things until the results were shoved down their throats the hard way:

1. Ford's production line would never work,

2. Frederick Winslow Taylor's concepts of efficiency were rubbish,

3. William Edwards Deming's ideas of constant improvement and team work were total rubbish.

It was also the CIOs, CEOs, and CFOs that made all those interesting investments and economic changes that lead to the Wall Street crash back in the early part of the 20th Century. Hmm, it does make you wonder how smart they are as a collective group.

edit to add CEOs