>The problem is management competence. Most managers are also unskilled, even managers with technical skill usually come into management after graduating not af

>The problem is management competence. Most managers are also unskilled, even managers with technical skill usually come into management after graduating not after working at a lower level. My observation is that in general managers are optimizing the thing that personally benefits them the most: their pay, promotions and careers. The company doing well has rather little impact on that so they don't optimize for that. Promotions for managers either in the same company or at a new company are often based on headcount they managed. So they focus on making the team grow irrespective of value from that. Their bosses are aiming for the same thing so everyone is aligned. It's not incompetence but a lack of belief that helping the corporation for the sake of helping the corporation is of any value.