Some blue collar guys I used to work with had a saying: "Shit rolls downhill". Years later, I realized that had a lot to do with the way orgs with bad management deal with tech/dev: everyone likes to talk about accountability when it goes downhill to the devs, but no one wants to talk about accountability for having a clue about what they want. You could plug in space heaters in a circle in a conference room and it would have about the same effect.