[willjp]

I would wish that they would also:

- Listen to their team. Issues arise, complexity may be higher than appears. Being receptive to reality and not being obstinate.

- Manage priorities, when there is too much to do everything, so progress can continue instead of gridlock by stakeholder updates, changes, and context switches leaving you feeling like a husk

- Not an expectation, but I find the good ones almost play the role of team therapist. I had a very kind manager stay up until midnight with me being supportive when it got really bad. The opposite of this is the not-my-problem people

- Really really good managers understand the pressures you are under, and give suggestions on how you can work smarter.

I do think sometimes there is pressure and they get in the way of work to produce visible artifacts to have something to point to that they did. I’m empathetic, a lot of their work is invisible.