I think a better one would be a manager who was not participating much who, when learning of some major illness of a code center, diagnosed by an external consu

I think a better one would be a manager who was not participating much who, when learning of some major illness of a code center, diagnosed by an external consultant, attempts to fix it and instead makes things worse. The metaphor would be that if the manager was doing their job they would agree with the diagnosis of the consultants. Thinking about it perhaps it's not a manager but a senior developer. Someone with some limited power.