Trouble is most middle/upper-management is so technically incompetent, that not only can they not do technical work that their moronic decisions entail, but they can't even distinguish b/w arguments for how something is to be accomplished.
As a metaphor: for problems in NP, verifiability is in P. So you have some super-duper savant alg. that outputs some answer, but even a dumb-system should be able to quickly verify. Our managers are typically dumber than this.
I'd argue the opposite: it's the technically-savvy people who got promoted to management/leadership positions, while lacking the people skills, the strategy chops, and the basic understanding of business realities - these are the truly incompetent managers.
But you need to be able to promote good technical people or they will finally leave and you ll be left with gif managers an no one good technically to manage.
A boss doesn’t need to be technically competent to a degree that they make important technical decisions. They just need to understand things to a degree so they can trust and delegate.
And tust is a two way street. It requires effort from both sides.
Many times, they were technical people/engineers who weren't that great at the technical stuff, but were really good at networking and self-promotion, and talked their way up in the organization.
As a metaphor: for problems in NP, verifiability is in P. So you have some super-duper savant alg. that outputs some answer, but even a dumb-system should be able to quickly verify. Our managers are typically dumber than this.