Managers, in times of hard honest criticism appear, to me at least, to be a vestige of slavery when master gave the slave with slightly fairer skin or softer voices more milk in their tea to whip their brethren for further profit-making of master's enterprise.
We spend a lot of resources employing managers, imagining positions for them, for noisy grasping nonproducers.
The role seems to require trading in spine for an invite to the feast that is the pandemonium of most if not all corporate bureaucracies. Made men failing upwards and sycophants trading souls for steps up broken ladders.
Efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, ethics and fairness do not appear to be taught in MBAs.
Managers are the notorious "weasels", "snakes" and "sharks". Close your eyes and you will see their faces.
Competent adults do not need bloated, self-perpetuating and mendacious forms of management.
Instead all work simply cries out for authentic leadership, of which management, as it exists in money-preserving monstrosities, is a perversion of.
Less managers and management; rework the inverted pyramid: there is your cost savings. Useless middle men are killing productivity and wasting spreadsheets.
Do work. Not talk about doing work then play dress up. Management is cosplaying leadership.