> It's not really about being in charge/calling shots I believe, admittedly based only on personal experience and anecdotal evidence, that this attitude is sha

> It's not really about being in charge/calling shots I believe, admittedly based only on personal experience and anecdotal evidence, that this attitude is shared by a vanishingly small minority of managers, at least in practice. Even the manager you mentioned referenced "the only way he can move upward" which implies even he ultimately wants to be in charge or call the shots in some hierarchical system, or am I reading too much into it?