title: Age, skill, and management.
abstract: Although laboratory-based studies would suggest that most human attributes decay with age, almost all organizations and communities appoint individuals aged about fifty-five years as their policy-makers and leaders. Some human attributes which may improve with age are described from a series of skills analyses of managers. The older manager is more acceptable because he or she is less personally competitive, more capable of taking a global view concentrating on essentials, more veridical, more tolerant, more directional, and more aware of his or her own assets, limitations, and biases.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000375:Aging; D001076:Aptitude; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D012917:Social Adjustment