I have worked with some fantastic "people managers" in my career who don't write code. But they usually faded into the background most of the time, except for w

I have worked with some fantastic "people managers" in my career who don't write code. But they usually faded into the background most of the time, except for when they needed to communicate something or I needed their help with something. The bad managers were always working hard to schedule more meetings, force extra process into every step of our work, make decisions about how we did our work, and to change our priorities to work on their pet projects. The bad managers occupied 10X more of my time than the good managers. It only took one or two bad managers to completely derail productivity of an entire group.