The Good Manager is a creative, efficient individualist. The Good Manager can fraudproof a business, turn every staff member into a high value asset and turn the janitor into a paying business while getting rid of sycophants, middlemen and careerists, then have lunch.
The Good Manager is the virtual antithesis of the mythical management culture, and avoids it like a disease. You won't find Good Managers in endless meetings- They run successful businesses, not talkfests and bizarre rituals.
Either you run a job, or it runs you. The Good Manager runs the job, and runs it like it's never been run before.
