Interesting article, I never really thought about a disengaged manager as being incompetent. Anecdotally, at the same company I had one manager who was complet

Interesting article, I never really thought about a disengaged manager as being incompetent. Anecdotally, at the same company I had one manager who was completely hands off and free of any actionable feedback or advice. While it felt empowering to chart my own destiny, I also wouldn't have any insight into where my weaknesses were or if what I'm feeling about the project at that time was normal. Are others feeling the same way? Then when I transferred to a different manager they were very engaging, and would follow up with me outside of our 1 on 1s whenever there was a reason to check back in. The very first question I was asked, "how do you like to be recognized?" It certainly threw me off guard because I never really thought about it directly before. Also, they would give me hard feedback and help me course correct from their different vantage point in the moment, not later during a performance review. Needless to say, the first manager I consistently got a meets all rating, which was fine, but it was demotivating and I would have probably left, while the second, I did way better and fell in love with my job.