Originally Posted by
spclark
WHOA! What an original concept! [/sarc]
And all these years I'd been thinking I was the only one who bothered. "Managers" mostly seemed to behave as though it was their job to leave making mistakes to others then claiming credit for what worked.
BTW thanks for posting links to that Silca stuff. Never stumbled across that before, lots to absorb!
A perusal of technical manager job postings provides an clue as to why. Goals say things like recruiting, retaining, mentoring, building teams. Skills required will be an alphabet soup of technologies, with leadership skills and aptitude hardly mentioned. Results are unsurprising, given the hiring decisions and priorities.