I think that really is the rub. Manager performance is hard to measure, and most organizations don't really want to measure management performance because it's

I think that really is the rub. Manager performance is hard to measure, and most organizations don't really want to measure management performance because it's costly and easier to cycle through ICs, especially where there is an abundance of IC supply. I worked for a bad manager that caused over 60% of the team to leave (including me), and finally a year later they were "demoted" by being put in charge of a smaller, less-significant team. An IC that dropped 60% of their deliverables would have been on the chopping block in weeks, if not months.