Glueball, for a first post that's a remarkably silly one (unless, as I suspect, you're a troll..). Although PPRuNe is primarily orientated towards professional pilots there are a fair number of non-pilots, attracted by a love of aviation and by the many interesting discussions here. Apart from the more highly specialised threads, most of the more general topics such as this one illustrate problems and difficulties that are almost universal in application. From these I learn a lot and occasionally contribute a little. Formal CRM, for instance, is never either practiced or taught in my profession - through PPRuNe I have been led to realise this failure and to start implementing CRM in my unit.
Few real cutting surgeons make good managers. If they are charismatic they can often weld together remarkable small teams, but they tend (with exceptions) to make poor general managers. The reasons are probably that we tend to have a low tolerance of endless indecisive committee meetings and are bored by administrative minutiae. Those who are good at management and enjoy such bureaucratic cut-and-thrust usually end up operating less and less as they attend more and more meetings. As time goes by they then become increasingly out of touch, out of practice and (perversely) increasingly dogmatic about procedures that they no longer perform. And of course, those who were never really happy with the knife tend to become administrators anyway.
Can good management be taught? Well, maybe principles can, but real, big management needs patience, empathy, determination and good people skills that are qualitatively different from those required to captain a small tight group.
A most interesting topic with good comments so far.