[stephc_int13]

Managing a team is not easy and it requires skills that are not automatically found among people who are good at engineering.

At the same time, a lot of managers (more than half in my book) are bad at managing people.

[dyeje]

Most engineers are bad at engineering too. That's just the natural distribution of all professions. Managers are not special, their incompetence is just felt more directly and viscerally.