The role of the majority of directors is to take a company into the future, yet many are bogged down by reporting and compliance - backward-looking activities that detract from the real job of making progress and ensuring sustainability.
Training offered by the majority of organisations is directed to compliance and reporting because there's an established syllabus [the regulations] and it doesn't need a lot of thought; in short - it's boring.
For a more reasoned argument, have a look at: Download climbing_the_greasy_pole.pdf
You might also enjoy as a bit of background this other posting: http://fundamentally.typepad.com/blog/files/four_types_of_person.pdf
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