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If you manage professionals and can't tell how well your team is doing unless you see them in person daily, you're a terrible manager.
Alternatively, If I have to bring the people who report to me into the office for them to get their shit together, they're a lost cause anyway.
Got a better one:
If you're a professional and need to be managed, you're not actually a pro.
A good manager is like the coxswain of a row boat. Their job isn't to provide more power, or tell the rowers how to row. Their job is to keep all the rowers synchronized, and pulling in the same direction.
A good manager does a similar thing. They keep the team both aligned with each other, and pointed in the required business direction. There are a LOT of bad managers out there, however.
Yeah... no. You should be competent enough to contribute where you're needed without paying a manager to figure it out for you.
This is why Valve has such a unique business structure.
Lmao this is not how human beings function. The smarter and more skilled your employees are, the more they will conceptualize their own direction from the limited information available to them. Keeping 5, 10, 40+ highly competent people pulling in the same direction is very challenging.
Good teams need good managers the way professional athletes need coaches.
Depending on the business situation, that would be a complete disaster. You don't want 10 people working on a 5 man job, when 2 more jobs are both languishing, and time critical. A good manager can make the calls about which work can wait, and which needs to take priority, and how to balance things. They can also work as primary points of contact between different teams and companies. This keeps information flow clear and stops people being left out of the loop.
While all of these can be done without a manager, the efficiency plummets as the number of people grow. By the time you're dealing with large, inter-company politics, a manager is critical to take load off the workers. I don't want to spend 80% of my time keeping people informed, when I can spend 2% and get on with my actual job.