What’s good management? Scott Adams framed the discussion of management in his famous Dilbert Principle, when he said, “it takes less brains to be a manager than to be the people who are managed.”[i]
Adams also said that it took more brain horsepower to write a complicated data encryption algorithm than to write daily status reports on the encryption project. Or, it took more brain mass to be a brain surgeon than it did to write vision/mission statements.
[i] Adams, Scott, The Dilbert Future, Harper Business, 1997, pp. 119-120.