Whenever I feel like my management is not sufficiently technical or experienced I think of the construction foreman. I imagine what things would be like if you

Whenever I feel like my management is not sufficiently technical or experienced I think of the construction foreman. I imagine what things would be like if you could become a foreman without ever learning construction yourself. How would that work? Software development at some companies often seems like that. The person in the position of leadership is instead led (at the expense of productivity) by the people they're meant to lead. Of course this would never be allowed in a field where there are serious non-reversible consequences of negligence stemming from a lack of knowledge. I feel like this is largely a phenomenon local to software development.