Ask HN: What are the quintessential jobs of a manager?

[soroso]

In your opinion, what's the quintessential job of a manager?

I've heard in the past, for example, that a job of a manager is to create the condition for people to do their best work, and make it hard for them to stay if they suck.

I'm not sure this is right, but this fits a single description.

[josho]

Manager Tools (book and website) describes it as two parts.

1. Get results

2. Retain staff

I haven’t read a better description than that.