I'm sure it exists in management culture, but I'd argue that existence isn't universal: only one data point but I've been a manager for a long time now and, ver

I'm sure it exists in management culture, but I'd argue that existence isn't universal: only one data point but I've been a manager for a long time now and, very much because I think it's a ridiculous construct, it doesn't exist in my culture. I've worked one place where it was fairly strong (and wasn't there very long), but it's never really gained much of a foothold in any of the other companies I've worked at. Or, at least, not while I was there, which includes plenty of places where I was an IC or mainly an IC, so couldn't be attributed to my influence.