This has been my experience.
I hated being a manager, but I didn’t trust anyone else to do it.
My style draws a great deal of contempt from the HN crowd, but it worked extremely well, for 25 years.
I hated being a manager, but I didn’t trust anyone else to do it.
My style draws a great deal of contempt from the HN crowd, but it worked extremely well, for 25 years.
I don't think my advice will be helpful, though. I have found that it is something that would probably get you fired, in today's companies. Even the people that work for you are completely indoctrinated in the Tech Industry Zeitgeist, and will refuse to work with you.
Look at some of the comments that I get, when I talk about it. Really nasty. People take it as a personal attack, when I talk about my own experience.
I've found that management is an intensely human vocation, and efforts to commoditize it, fall flat.
In any case, I absolutely hated being a manager. Since being forced into retirement, I've returned to my tech roots, and couldn't be happier. I'd much rather talk about that, and I do[0].
I have limited experience as a manager, but I'm starting a new SAAS company and one of our priorities is to establish a humane and engineer-friendly culture.