# Prof. Anat Lechner on improving the quality of managers

1 Faculty News May 19, 2015 ![OZY logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/ozy192x144.jpg?itok=GNkYVaPM)>

Excerpt from [Ozy](http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/how-to-solve-the-problem-of-rotten-managers/60075) -- "Most professions worth their salt require certification, reasons NYU Stern Business School professor of management [Anat Lechner](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anat-lechner). Yet people in management, who 'control, very often, many resources — and can influence pretty much everybody in society, directly and indirectly — don't.' She adds, as we all know too well, that 'one bad manager can ruin the lives of pretty much everybody underneath them.'"

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