This article frames management as being quite an adversarial process, framing it as managers vs software engineering ICs. It seems to say that it's quite natural that as an SE manager you'd have no actual SE experience and that micromanagement is the ideal you'd naturally want to strive for. The problem being addressed is that you can't actually have that, because SEs will quit. So now you have to find a way around that problem. In my opinion: If you subscribe to all these premises, you don't need to read the rest of the article, because you've already lost.
