Managers are promoted to managers because the higher ups like them, and want to include them in their circle. They have the right face, fit in, agree on similar

Managers are promoted to managers because the higher ups like them, and want to include them in their circle. They have the right face, fit in, agree on similar things etc. They earn more money for the same reason. If your are not the sort person, who can surpress your own values to fit in with the right crowd. Its best to just regularly reneogiate your salary. Humans are humans after all. We run on emotions/friendships/tribes and not pure rationality.(although people like to pretend they do) Regneogating your salary, is using the market to correct these irrationalities and bad perceptions about where the value is coming from. Business knowledge comes after being given position where its possible to learn it, not before. If someone wants you as a manager because they like you, they'll find a way to train you. Also engineering managers are often stuck between a rock and a hard place. Given imposible tasks and deadlines from people above them who don't have a grip on reality, and engineers from below who are saying it just can't be done. Often it is just impossible situations. Its there job to neogiate the team out of these situations. Its very nice to be a manager when everything's going well. Absolute hell when it isn't.