I acknowledge the reductiveness of what I'm saying, but it's absolutely not transactional. To the contrary, understanding and distilling broad contexts from wh

I acknowledge the reductiveness of what I'm saying, but it's absolutely not transactional. To the contrary, understanding and distilling broad contexts from which you have only partial visibility is incredibly difficult work and easy to get wrong. Influencing without direct control requires sustained learning, relationship building and self-reflection. My point is that all the nuance and subtlety of management is easy to get lost in (especially if you go straight into management without strong baseline work experience). Coaching, Culture Building, and Career Planning are all important components, but you will not do a good job at them if you don't understand A) the work and B) the business context and strategic direction.