Fair I guess on that note I've promoted people to managers that other didn't considered lesser or equal from technical stand point. Usually reason for that prom

Fair I guess on that note I've promoted people to managers that other didn't considered lesser or equal from technical stand point. Usually reason for that promotions were either better product/business sense, more clear ambitions and a bit of luck for joining early enough. I've observed that feeling that the middle manager is not great relates to whatever subordinate is great at, let's say one is great architect and knows everything about aws and manager doesn't. But the subordinate doesn't event realise strengths of the manager in understanding underlying business value, managing stakeholders, and enough technical knowledge to make right tradeoff to deliver business impact. One successful experiment we did in our team was to share majority off manager project responsibilities with IC developers for specific projects. The resulting comment from IC to manager was: 'wow I honestly thought you just slack off all day, now I understand how difficult your work is'