"Management" is short hand for the Jack Welch wannabe MBA try hards. Not middle management.

From my limited experience with megacorps, and lots of reading, persons Director level and up are bat guano insane. Execs live in their own separate Machiavellian fantasy world bubble. Any nod to reality (eg rocket go boom) is a selfown for corporate ladder climbers.

Any productive work at an org like Boeing, post infection by MD's leeches, is in despite of "managagement"'s best efforts.