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This. Management is harder than many, especially junior, engineers think. The key is that you have to intrinsically want to do right by your team, sublimating your ego for the greater good of the whole. Not everyone does, and to me that’s table stakes for management, it means the person has the raw material to be a decent manager. That said it’s not sufficient. The hard part is trading off the team needs and desires versus the larger strategic imperatives. That and resolving conflicting priorities within the team.

Still, “doing right by the team” is distressingly not universal, or even when present, many don’t actually know how.