The best manager I ever had was someone I had no respect for at first. He was not a tech wizard and at times I suspected he was clueless. (He was not, just focu

The best manager I ever had was someone I had no respect for at first. He was not a tech wizard and at times I suspected he was clueless. (He was not, just focused on his role. He thought his job was to ensure that his reports knew what OTHER people in the group were doing. And that we, as a group, knew where we were going. The group was astonishingly successful, because WE got things done. Over a period of years. The silly company hired some very techy guy who decided to do a rewrite with plugins. Wowy Zowy Tech! Over two years that group became larger and larger and never, ever, ever shipped a product. Hmmmm. Then they went under. It is the WE that is important. This was not an attack on rbb, although I understand how it read like one, and I am sorry for that. It was however an attempt to point out that even if you drop the only there is no WE in that concept of how people work. Certainly no one argues for a manager not to be aware, but the crucial element is for team members to be aware.