What I have learned from my years of being an engineering manager is that the corporate model of …

> How does this person talk about other people? I find myself referring to my contractors as: Workers. What does that mean about me? I can't call them employees. I read the communist stuff a while ago and decided I didn't want to be exploited, so I thought this was just the proper terminology. But people on the internet loath being called a worker and have called me out on this. Meanwhile I yoyo between to nice and too hard... I think I'm naturally too nice to the point of failure. I seem to only be 'too hard' for a few months before I go back. Thank god my industry is high demand, I think even with bad management we will survive. (I got a masters in Engineering Management + read 10 books, but management/supervision orthodoxy is diverse and contradictory.)

Your comment is a bit dismissive, like all this detail isn't needed. But really it's just because you have a different goal to the article. You're just talking about determining whether someone is a good manager. Sure, a basic measure of their actions (which you describe as "context" but I don't think that's what you really mean) is enough. Do they care about the people they manage? But this article is about how to be a good manager. Assuming you already do care about the people you manage there's a lot more detail to deal with. So yes, the lessons of this article really are in the words. I found it very interesting.