It depends on the company. I am 47, very senior "management" position in a large company. I manage a whooping team of three. By choice. What I am not comforta

It depends on the company. I am 47, very senior "management" position in a large company. I manage a whooping team of three. By choice. What I am not comfortable with in your comment is the manager = leader (implied in the last sentence). I hate to manage people (to plan their work, to do the logistics of their life at the office etc.). On the other hand I live to be the one pushing for a solution, bringing others in, pushing my obviously brilliant point of view, retro-pedalling when it is not the right one finally and again bring in people with this new solution. I put a lot of enthusiasm and energy into it and I am very happy. I think the qualities of a manager and a leader are different, some people can be both but also only one of them. I managed from 1 to 350 peple, the latter was horrible.