The Management Solution
Some of these are interpersonal skills all professionals should have, but today's current management types only want clones of themselves, but better, with the ability to solve their technology problems AND do their work, while being paid a lot less. Oh and yeah, if it doesn't work out, there's always outsourcing to India and now China.
Management is necessary and managers used to be competent professionals, but we've descended into a crop of 11 year olds of the type responsible for the 2008 worldwide financial meltdown (with the excuse -- and you can see this in "Inside Job": Nobody stopped us!).
Children playing at being professional, making the lives of professional technologists unpleasant and nearly impossible.
It's time for a massive change, and if management doesn't fix the problems in itself (aptly described in "Moral Mazes" and "The Management Trap"), they will find themselves out of business in a slow slide of entropy.
