How to get a job in management?

[Rivet]

I used to be really interested in becoming a music technician, but recently discovered I lacked the motivation to do what they do.

Then I thought to myself, I seem to be pretty good at predicting artists' careers, and thinking up new and better ways to get them the recognition they need. Maybe I'd be good in management?

Problem is, I'm not very educated as to what occupations within the music industry or within a record label actually ask the person to do.

Can anyone help me out?

[Potato]

Maybe marketing? I don't know.

[DudeAsInCool]

A & R. Not sure how you get in, but Im sure it has a lot to do with schmoozing... You might want to start researching by reading these books (via AskMetafilter)

All You Need To Know About The Music Business by Donald Passman

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/074...r-20/ref=nosim/

Music Genres and Corporate Cultures

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Genres-Corpo...h/dp/0415174007

Even if you're not interested in recording technology per se, every issue of TapeOp has some really substantive interviews w/a diverse set of artists and music recordists..really "in the trenches" stuff: http://www.tapeop.com/

Ethan Brown's Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

http://www.amazon.com/Queens-Reigns-Suprem...r/dp/1400095239

[Rivet]

A&R?

[DudeAsInCool]

A&R?

Artist and Repertoire." The A & R staff would select artists to record music. These guys are universally young [about the same age as the bands being wooed], and nowadays they always have some obvious underground rock credibility flag they can wave. (From Google)