It often means that your manager is doing nothing but the administration around management, and your team leads are pseudo-managers. There are three forms of m

It often means that your manager is doing nothing but the administration around management, and your team leads are pseudo-managers. There are three forms of management: The team lead as manager, the manager that has 2-4 teams and is responsible for communication flow in the system, and the pure administrative manager overseeing a community of developers that are self-managing. I hate the pure administrative manager model.