> leave people good at the job doing the job and let people good at managing doing the managing. In my experience of UK military/security service there is a bo

> leave people good at the job doing the job and let people good at managing doing the managing. In my experience of UK military/security service there is a boffins + officers divide attitude all the way up. Above any level of required knowledge it moves into the Oxbridge/PPE/civil servant mindset - it shouldn't take too much imagination to realise that these people aren't necessarily hired for the brilliance in management.