Equally, I always find it depressing that well educated professionals ‘wait around’ for someone else to do something.

If we learn nothing else from this mess, it should be that we must stop abdicating. Professionals must hire managers to do work for them, not to control them. We need to assert structures to check the consequences of managers’ work in advance and the results will then be down to us.

We may not do a better job, of course.

Surely they can “manage” better?
It seems so out of control ……
I first spotted this in http://www.theregister.co.uk – so now the whole IT industry watching….