Exactly, great post!
If you are a boss and you want the respect of your employees it pays to know everyone’s job at least as good as they do if not better.Otherwise you are just there and have authority above them. Authority in mgmt. needs to be earned.
What really pays is to know their headaches, and do something that relieves them. It also helps to take darts for the team. I also made every effort to make my work transparent, with the idea that whatever I was doing, that made the team click, should belong to them so they could move on just as effectively without me.
Basically, I work for them, at their pleasure.
We made radical changes. Life got better. No risky shortcuts either. They stopped hiding mistakes, and I never did hide mine.
Well stated re managing employees. Having been with you in their presence as they built rods I know you “ practice what you preach “