Smart People would become manage consultants :)

[Thomas Astebro]

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Subject: Smart People would become manage consultants :)

The Dilbert Factor October 17, 1997, 12:01 AM PT If life were a
"Dilbert" cartoon, every manager would be a pointy-haired doofus derided
by
all. Every boss isn't that bad, of course, but the stigma appears to
bleeding into real life anyway. According to recent reports, a growing
number of professionals are abandoning management as a career choice.
Some
experts call the phenomenon the Dilbert factor, referring to cartoonist
Scott Adams' popular strip. Manchester Consulting, a firm that advises
thousands of employees annually, says about 80 percent of its clients
steer
clear of management jobs, whereas up to 70 percent coveted them just two
decades ago. More people now try to develop narrow skill sets and work
as
consultants. But a sense that managers get no respect - like Dilbert's
boss -- is just one important reason professionals are avoiding the
field
en masse. As companies become more competitive, managers are often the
first to be "downsized." Those that remain are seeing their perks
reduced,
and worse, they're often asked to do more with less and manage employees
from different backgrounds. Consider the example of a certain
non-technical manager with unusual hair. When he's placed in charge of
the
engineers, morale in the cartoon workplace plummets.