Taking Management Seriously.......

90% of the problems I find when I work as a consultant with organisations can be traced back to poor management. So why do we not take management seriously?

Management is the only 'profession' that you get promoted into because you are good at something else and the only one where no preparation is apparently though necessary. Why?

By the way, it is not the individual managements fault, it is the 'system' that does not value management as a profession.

If we were serious about sorting out UK Plc then for me the one thing we could do which would have the biggest impact is to develop better managers in both the public and private sectors. It is not about banks or government policy where the solution lies, we are looking in the wrong place.