This is a great comment, and it helps reveal to us why there are approximately zero good managers. Imagine a job advertisement: Position available for (Softwa

This is a great comment, and it helps reveal to us why there are approximately zero good managers. Imagine a job advertisement: Position available for (Software Development, but any industry really) Project Manager. Hard requirements: • Take ownership • Delegate • Know where we want to end up • Recognise problems • Understand dependencies • Remove hurdles • Provide resources by identify bottlenecks and resource constraints and remove them • Be able to communicate to the team collectively and each member individually to a high level • Make sound and stable decisions • Motivate the team • Do all of these things well above average level • Not just this project and this team, but also the next project and when the team gets shuffled around from time to time There are approximately zero people who can do all of this on a consistent basis. Maybe one in a million can do some of it well some of the time, perhaps. Maybe. If you have a manager who is simply a reasonable sort of person, though they may be lacking everything else, I strongly urge you to do everything you can to keep that person where they are. If you don't mind tolerating them, you're on to good thing, because there's a fair chance ousting them will result in your team finding the next person is much much worse.