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Maybe we should dispense with managers except at the very top and just choose a random person from the team to be acting manager for the week. If some person from the team will end up being manager anyway, choosing randomly minimises the disruption to work, since your best performer will be saddled with managerial duties only occasionally.

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Had a similar experience: I think regrettably if the timescale is this short, no-one knows who to talk to (from other teams/the proper managers the level above), there's some need for memory/dealing with long-running things, and so you end up with backseat driving, revisiting the same issues without decisive action taken, etc

Kind of similar, but I was thinking of replacing them with team assistants (a kin to PAs or secretaries) for teams. This is nothing but just renaming the current roles except that it takes the connotation of a manager being better, more experienced or more jiggly valued than rest of the team. Perhaps that'd work?

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