IMHO, there's a huge difference between "the problem" and "a problem" here. Yes, they're often a problem. But upstream are: - Top Officers and Directors, who

IMHO, there's a huge difference between "the problem" and "a problem" here. Yes, they're often a problem. But upstream are: - Top Officers and Directors, who (as a generality) do a crap job of recognizing / recruiting / retaining / training / supervising / promoting good mid-level managers. - Complexities of big pictures and scale, which very often force managers to be the bearers of bad news to the worker bees - who want things to just be simple and straight-forward in their trenches. - Human nature, which provides us with a very meager supply of people who are both (potentially) really good at management, and eager (or at least quite willing) enough to put up with all the crap that being in management offers.