[yuan43]

> Communicating effectively is a complex skill that takes years to develop, and an essential one if you want to program professionally.

I suspect that a good chunk of the drive to send "aging" programmers into management is that they're much better at communication than their peers. And part of it has to be that a subordinate who is better at communication than the manager often becomes a de facto manager.

Leadership often doesn't respect organization charts. But this can cause a great deal of angst among anointed leaders.