> They are required because building the wrong thing is worse than not building anything at all And yet, "manager" is usually[1] only responsible for ensuring

> They are required because building the wrong thing is worse than not building anything at all And yet, "manager" is usually[1] only responsible for ensuring the boards get carried from the truck to the construction site and that two workers don't shoot at each other with nail guns, not "we, collectively, are building the right house." I freely admit that my cynicism is based on working in startups, where who knows what the right thing actually is, but my life experience is that managers for sure do not: they're just having meetings to ensure the workers are executing on the plan that the manager heard in their meeting 1: I am also 1000000% open to the fact that I fall into the camp of not having seen this mythical "competent manager" you started with