In my experience as entrepreneur and manager of a software company I believe one of the essential qualities as manager is to understand what is going to happen(

In my experience as entrepreneur and manager of a software company I believe one of the essential qualities as manager is to understand what is going to happen(predict) if people follow a path and DO NOT LET IT HAPPEN. It is like controlling a RC hellicopter or quadcopter, you need to do very shuttle movements and is almost effortless. But if you let it to destabilize, the thing is hitting the ground hard and trying to fix it could make it worse. If you leave someone working 6 months on something, you better control it correcting deviations soon, instead of just telling the person that all their work is worthless later. People that avoid confrontation at all cost could make thing worse as when they are forced to act it is too late.