Disclosure: Am manager. Bad idea. Managers need to know a different set of finer details, not none at all. While individuals on a team have to get deep into

Disclosure: Am manager. Bad idea. Managers need to know a different set of finer details, not none at all. While individuals on a team have to get deep into the details of what they're doing, managers need to work at the edges - where what Team X is doing integrates with V, Y and Z; and longer term, how what all of those teams are doing now fits in with the work lined up 6-24 months down the road. That's a full time job, even before we've actually done any managing of our individuals. Maybe this gives you some insight, but that's actually why (in my opinion) the first things to fall off with poor managers are 1x1s, meaningful coaching, etc. Managers also have the stresses of accountability and expectations. There are days where I wish I was still an individual contributor.