In your opinion what are the best qualities you have experienced with managers? Managers, project managers, technical PM, QA PM, designer managers, anything
Looking out for your self, setting up a good image, scheming, talking behind people's back, giving ics bullshit answers
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Understanding of the tech work (even though s/he may be a people's manager), empathy, flexibility, support for the team, attitude of getting things done.
handling disagreement is often what i see inexperienced managers fail at
People skills.
Trusts his ICs. Makes the right call on hard decisions. Finds opportunities to push his ICs to grow.
Visionary, provides motivation, good at prioritizing, good listener, gets things done without passing on the pressure
Amazon's 14 leadership principles.
Protects the team from managerial pressure and angry customer requests. Allowed our dev team to work on larger projects without being overly burdened down by rabbit hole requests
Listens, and asks for your insight. In theory "are you blocked?" is sufficient, but there's far more to people and our interactions than that, a manager with high eq and the right mindset will take everyone very far.
Empathy.