>Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”.
Perhaps we can refine the principle even more "Good engineers are good leaders" since many of the world's top companies' CEO are engineers [1].
As excellent examples Amazon's CEO and CTO for a very long time are engineers. Werner Vorgels was the PhD student of Prof. Tanembaum with that authored popular OS and Computer Networks textbooks.
[1] Top CEOs have this degree: