> many people sheepishly admitted that the best managers they had ever had knew absolutely nothing about technology This is an interesting line, does anybody s

> many people sheepishly admitted that the best managers they had ever had knew absolutely nothing about technology This is an interesting line, does anybody share this opinion? My experience are exactly opposite. The managers with whom I enjoyed working always had an engineering background or at least they were very keen to learn and were asking tons of technical questions after being assigned to the team. I think it's important for both parties (manager and their subordinates) to understand each other. To achieve that I think you need some common knowledge, common point of reference to start from. So either management needs some technical knowledge, or technical people some knowledge of management (at least some theory of it).