A lot of management are coming out of "business schools" that are little more than indoctrination. These people don't know the difference between a leader and a manager and qualify as neither.

I was blown away when I was promoted to a management position and realized none of the other managers I worked with read any books on management or had any real experience. Many fell into the management position and just kept doing fuck all.

Not saying the overeducated is better. We later got some Wharton grads who were thrown into the management space and they were the most dumbest MFs I ever met. Their theories would go against reality and at no point did they understand the work involved.

When were we working together???

That's the #1 thing. Managers as a position are incentivized to be overly concerned with their own careers and NOT involving anybody who actually does the work, unless it's as a scapegoat or to steal credit.

Humble people with natural leadership qualities tend to find such roles disgusting...so we get...managers.

When firing people is difficult, it's not infrequent to promote them to hire someone useful to backfill.

Those people keep rising the ladder through seniority and attrition.

They never do anything bad enough to get fired and just make everyone below them miserable cuz they don't understand the business and like to prove that they're in charge because of fear of inadequacy.

I'm convinced that most people just don't do very much real actual problem solving work.