> I mean, isn't feedback from developers the main source of info available to a manager? Of course it is, that's well-known. But for 20 years of career 99% of

> I mean, isn't feedback from developers the main source of info available to a manager? Of course it is, that's well-known. But for 20 years of career 99% of all managers I ever worked with outright ignore the feedback. Most people should not be in positions of power -- ever. It quickly turns into an ego trip where inconvenient facts are ignored and hand-waved away. And always letting somebody else deal with the fallout of your incompetence. Programmers are not stupid. With your feedback routinely ignored you learn to keep quiet -- why expend energy on something futile? Or you change jobs. Take a wild guess which of both happens 90% of the time.