Having worked with competent and incompetent managers. I can tell you a competent manager increases my productivity by a significant fold. By shielding the tea

Having worked with competent and incompetent managers. I can tell you a competent manager increases my productivity by a significant fold. By shielding the team away from dumb political games, providing technical / architecture / design input, and controlling meetings and direction for meeting. Ex: one of the competent managers I knew could always “win” the argument for our team, I saw them convince an otherwise unshakable team to make changes by themselves (convincing an entire team to make a necessary change). The best managers I worked with were less about control, they trusted you, and ensured no one got in your way, and they were also skilled at architecture / coding themselves.