Being a high level executive in a large organization is more about management, not leadership.

Being a leader requires having a perspective on the ends, not just the means.

The former is very hard to have a perspective, to stand for something.

The thing you might be required by the org to stand for might change at any point, and you need to be able to credibly now stand for that thing.

In practice you get a cargo culting of instrumentalist reasoning, "I care about optimizing". That sounds like a perspective on ends, but it isn't one.

A "data driven" company will lean more towards eroding away a perspective in favor of an optimization lens.

But that is a perspective, just an unbelievably bland one.