Menelvir wrote:Easy question to answer. For me, it's:
Poor-quality, lackluster, uninspiring leadership.
The mere fact that an individual possesses a Ph.D. is no guarantee that they also have strong leadership skills, and anyone who believes otherwise is simply deluded.
In the private sector, this has a way of regulating itself -- in the public sector, not so much.
Not so much in the private sector ether. People who pump themselves up to the boss the most get promoted, not those who have the best qualities. Then you get idiots who don't know what is happening in their own department running it into the ground, all the good, qualified people find jobs somewhere else and the poor saps who didn't go early enough get overburdened with extra work and blamed for their bosses overpromissing on shit that can't be delivered. My last job was like that, the guy who barely got a bachelors degree was constantly chating himself up to the CEO taking credit for the work that suppliers did, so he was promoted (against the VP of the department wishes) to a manager, then he did even more bs'ing to the CEO since now he could actually have meetings with him as a manager, got the VP fired and was promoted to VP's job. In 3 months 2/3 of the people (including myself) from that department left the company, my friend who still works there told me that 4 out of 5 projects i was running that were supposed to finish between August and November have all now been delayed until next summer because the VP is running them himself and running them over budget and into the ground, lost half of the vendors that i built relationships with too, because he was asshole to them. Somehow, though he still manages to blame others for everything that goes wrong and keeps his job. I think that guy will be our president soon if he just gets to talk to the right people.
