>The reality is that in order to effectively manage, you have to understand what the doers are actually doing. There is an important distinction. An effective

>The reality is that in order to effectively manage, you have to understand what the doers are actually doing. There is an important distinction. An effective manager should understand the general process and what can be time sinks, but they don't have to understand extremely specific details of what each worker is working on at any given time. For example, a manager of a software team doesn't need to understand the idioms of the programming language used by the team or even be that effective of a programmer. Some of my best managers have been ex-software devs that understood architecture, requirements distillation, etc really well but wrote the ugliest code you would ever see. :)