I'm not sure if micromanagement is that bad for the final product, as long as the manager has deep technical expertise and respects the people who he micromanag

I'm not sure if micromanagement is that bad for the final product, as long as the manager has deep technical expertise and respects the people who he micromanages. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are famous/notorius micromanagers (though they have some problems with the ,,respect'' part). At the same time as they understand the problems with the product development deeper, they are able to plan more iterations ahead. One example is the autopilot hardware. About 10-12 years ago I was working at Google, sitting in a self driving car in Mountain View when it was a secret project. I was already at that time amazed that the car could do some offroading tricks that I wasn't capable of, and I was quite certain that within 5 years it would be self driving without safety driver. Now it's 2020, and it seems to me that in no more than 10 years Tesla will win the autonomous race, as Elon understood that the computer needs lots of deep learning instructions (more than what NVIDIA could provide) and HD maps and lidars are not just unnecesary, but they are the wrong direction, as the visual sensing problem needs to be solved for safe self driving. In Google there are so many product managers at this point, that they themselves are actively hindering the product development itself, as they don't want to get into the details of the real problems.