Over the past few years and even decades, the construction industry has been changing its face. With accelerated development and globalization and with the transformation of almost all industries in the world, construction companies are forced to keep pace in an effort to maintain their economy, but also their quality. Construction projects are becoming more complex and demanding, and project managers must find a way to upgrade and integrate their previous technical knowledge with managerial skills. This paper presents and describes the aforementioned another side of competence, which is necessary for the successful operation of a construction company. With a review of the basic skills that a quality manager must have, and the development of management throughout history, an insight is given into the importance of constantly developing and supplementing one's own knowledge in various areas that the organization and management of a construction company or construction project entails. In addition, the paper processes statistical data on the representation of management in today's educational system, and presents research on the perception of MBACon program participants on individual characteristics of managers and the importance of those characteristics in contributing to their personal career.