Although I understand the frustration (first hand) working with management, I think it's important to understand that there are two sides to every story.

The stero-typical view of hackers from within management is someone who is too smart for their own good, believes they're above the law, has poor communication skills, and has absolutley no understanding of the realties and constraints of running a business. To management, your brilliant, time-saving tools and techniques are actually the opposite. They waste time, are unproductive, and simply delay the release of something that the client needs *yesterday*. To managment, this is the bottom line (literally). The client won't pay for something that's delivered after they need it.

This view may be completely unrealistic (although this is an extreme version of it), but I think it's important to realise where management is coming from. In my experience, only a small percentage of managers are complete morons, and if your company's worth working for, they won't be around too long. The rest of them just don't see the picture from the same point of view as us.

To me, though, the task of breaking down the barriers rests on the shoulders of both parties. It's important as a hacker to respect and understand the ways your company works. If there are problems that need to be addressed, there are proper channels to go through. If those channels don't get a response, then go to the next level in an appropriate way. By making these small concessions (and others), it's easy to get on in the corporate world.

Management (usually) has the best interests of the company at heart. But unless you can explain your side to them in a way they can relate to, they have no reason to listen.