A while back I quizzed a doctor friend about working conditions in a hospital and found the relationship between doctors and hospital managers to be highly analogous to software. Interestingly the most successful hospital managers tended to be ex-doctors but it was hard to convince doctors to move into management.
The heart of the issue is probably something surrounding trying to "manage" things according to some management principles when you don't understand the domain/skills of the people you are trying to manage.
The more different it is to your career experience, the harder it probably is.
You misunderstand: The only hospital managers are former doctors. As in, they pretty prevent any non-doctor from managing them and that's what we need to do, too.
We could use a cartel at this point, the job has gotten pretty lame and demeaning and as the only person who knows how to actually row the damn boat, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of it.
The heart of the issue is probably something surrounding trying to "manage" things according to some management principles when you don't understand the domain/skills of the people you are trying to manage.
The more different it is to your career experience, the harder it probably is.