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I'd say that people tend to dislike crappy managers. No one (rational) actually hates a manager that makes their life easier.

• sanderjd 11y ago
  There is a lot of talk about how the problem is "bad" or "crappy" managers, which I think allows many of us in the vast masses of untrained tech managers to feel warmer and fuzzier, because while we might not really know what we're doing, we're good-natured and right-thinking, so surely we're not crappy managers! In reality, I think mediocre management is the much larger problem. Or put another way, the idea that management skills are not something to be invested heavily in, but rather something to be "figured out". It may be true that a well-managed organization full of good professional managers is more efficient than less management-focused structures, but I'm not convinced that most organizations are willing to invest the resources to hire or train their way into having one of those, so other structures are a sensible alternative to explore.