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The Washington Post: “Lessons for a Command Performance: Training Programs Help New Managers Avoid the Pitfalls of Taking Charge”
You have bad managers, you could do a better job than your own manager. You are a new manager and don’t know what you’re doing. You are a new manager and just want a little respect. You are a new manager and you miss your old non-managerial job. You wish your company offered your managers some training. You wonder whether training would actually help.
It is a very good article about common problems with management. More often management is perceived as "commanding power". Like the article mentions, good thing with power is, “more you give away, more you have”. Very few managers can even comprehend this.
Another bad side effect of having bad managers is that it becomes very easy to make a comfort zone - where every one takes care of every one else. That is the death warrant for culture of candor. Nobody will have an disagreement, which will be touted as great team work. Consistently, the team might give a good impressions about how well things going. Everyone is happy, great team... Having a culture of measurements and reviewing against measurements constantly can help.