Can people be expected to manage and lead?

People in their organisational roles are being expected to manage AND lead. Yet in my experience these same people devote so little conscious time to explore how to build this capability - so little time spent reflecting to capture their learning, so little time reading about it and so little time spent talking about it with their colleagues and bosses! How can we expect people to get better at managing and leading when there is so little impetus, enthusiasm, dedication and inspiration around the importance of it. We need more people to have the courage to step up and challenge what is happening in their organisations and challenge the choices they make - to spend time reading about managing and leading instead of the latest tax legislation, the stock market movements, the latest breakthrough in technical research of their specialist field! People need to want to improve the way they manage and lead and actively build their knowledge, skills and desire to become the kind of leader they can be proud of!!!!