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Around half of management is not capable of pointing out any of their failures. If they do, then the failures are caused not because of their mistakes.

Common parent-child relationships, causing a top-down direction.

Independence is when you can replicate your manager in 100% the same way and not when you can accomplish your targets with no supervision in any legitimate way.

No tolerance for making any mistakes. You can get constant punishment if you do not do things exactly according to your tech lead/manager’s idea.

A big percentage of people like talking about themselves.

Too much focus on impact, ignoring people relations and good engineering. This constantly brings problems which could be avoided. But then managers are happy because their subordinates have more problems, so they can have more impact.

Try to understand a person's essential purpose to figure out what motivates them. Do not assume that fear motivates people best. Actually, motivating with hope might sometimes work better.

Control might sometimes stop people from taking action.