[alecfreudenberg]

Management is an often toxic mix between Strategy/SME/HR/Teacher/Therapist/Consultant/Punisher

Separate the functions out explicitly, as needed.

Often they're just corporate prison guards in organizations with bloated structures and antagonistic views of staff from an executive perspective.

Flatten your structures so the highest-level strategy is connected to your lowest paid staff. If you can't do this, then you have a toxic company that resembles prison labor and the whole thing deserves to fail.

[goodpoint]

In my experience less than 1 manager in 10 has some teacher / therapist qualities.

Oh, you forgot Politician.