A good manager is often invisible. If you forgot they were there, you were either lucky that everything in the org was going right (or was so far away it didn't

A good manager is often invisible. If you forgot they were there, you were either lucky that everything in the org was going right (or was so far away it didn't matter), or they were really good at shielding you from the fact that everything was not going right (and making it seem like that didn't matter). :)