[ThalesX]

Your short comment really triggered my management PTSD. I wrote a huge ass post but decided to delete it and just summarize:

* Senior tradesman -> manager is not a natural transition;

* Senior tradesmen take business into account without needing to transition;

* Both technical and business understandings are attributed to management while business is subtracted from senior tradesmen. Hilarious.

I'm glad at one point in my life, I have the option to transition to this magical role where all of a sudden I will understand everything and even if the potential users of this potential idea might potentially touch the potential application.

I wish I could have written a clearer statement instead of this empty half-rant, but as it stands, I am but a senior engineer so am forced to come to grips with my own limitations. If only I would transition... and after, maybe I'll naturally transition to president of everything.

[thyrsus]

Why does Dunning-Kruger come to mind?

[CRConrad]

On the part of the GP, or the management caste?