whats lacking in todays professionals

Todays professionals are not responsible because of the growth in the organization structure. Earlier the number of division will be less and they had lot of responsibility but today the hierarchy has grown and the responsibilities has come down. Since he is given only a portion of work he does it for name sake without knowing its impact. So they should be more responsible, whatever may be the work given.

Patience is the main thing that today's professionals lack.  Everyone wants fast track careers, success ,great achievements, fortune in short time.  All the other attributes are outcome of this type of mentality.  Competition now not a mere competition, it has become life and death game.  No one wants other person to move up the ladder & progress.  This creates a vicious circle where in everyone is looking out for opportunities to take advantage of others and step over him to move further.  All this leads to more stress, more illicit thinking and the demeanor had become bad to worse.  People are slowly forgetting compassion, empathy for fellow beings and are becoming more self centric.  Hope this gets better someday :-).  Hope they be more patient and develop a mentality of live and let others live peacefully!!

Was the purpose of education solely to make money?

If Ethics, Can they evaporate at first obstacle and forever in self-interests.

Stating, "I am awful short of time" to family, friends and anyone in need, is the worst statement a professional can make.

This solely implies the person failed to learn time management or value response. 

Apart from other aspects, Today's Executive lacks Values & Sense of Accountability1

WE are seriously lacking the maturity of being a professional. We need people to command us to do things. We don't have that maturity of saying completed the task whats next and also we don't have courage to say "No". We try to please our superiors so that they can be happy and we are not even trying to say whats best for the task/project/product or whatever.

Maturity of following ethics (be it anything) is seriously lacking.

we need things to be worked out in our way.

Most of the professionals are very selfish and are looking at possibilities for their growth, little realising that without the growth of the organisation, their growth is constrained. The keep jumping from job to job even for small benefits. Most professionals do not spend enough time for increasing their knowledge in a particular area but are more interested in adding qualifications with have only value on their CV.

People are missing this big time, if they think that its their own company and they are using resources from pocket and there should be right utilization of everything they do and use. if they treat Co loss as thier loss.

They should feel a sense of belongingness and they shown own their ACTS.

Focus on results  -Not the hours

Lacking any sense of empathy, people inside companies struggle to make intuitive decisions and often get fooled into believing they understand their business if they have quantitative research to rely upon. The challenge facing business today isn’t a lack of innovation, it’s lack of empathy.

The problem is that different disciplines, like marketing, finance, software development, etc. are all driven by different cultures.  They speak different languages and have deeply rooted ideas about what good work is.  And these cultures start to be formed when people are still in school.  Engineers, designers, accountants, marketers all get acculturated to their professions’ value systems in school, and it gets reinforced by the largely functional nature of organizational design.  The disciplines’ cultures are further reinforced by the kinds of people who are naturally attracted to each profession – people get attracted to different fields because their personalities and world views are compatible with the existing or perceived culture of that profession.  Look at people who enter engineering school – they’re qualitatively different than people who go to design school.

The need is to empathize with the way other departments thought, acted and worked.