Oh yeah, people above a non-specific layer in the org chart are served well by having sociopathic tendencies.
At a large company like Boeing you’re gonna have enough sociopaths in circulation that some of them are going to have O-7 donkeybrains, and the same thinking that allows them to justify a little white collar crime or tax fraud can carry-over to other means of “problem solving.” With enough money and connections they probably won’t fail either (just like how grandpa and his resources prevented them for expulsion from Case Western after the ‘incident’).
But no, I doubt this was the outcome of sitting around a conference table.