"I want to be a manager"

Chatting with a friend from a bulge bracket bank with 8 layers of management. I said, once anyone moves from the lowest layer into a non-IC, line manager, role : at least 70% of their work should be dedicated to force-multiplication via talent management.

This means board mandates, organisational architecture, project and task definition, role design, candidate search, evaluation, hiring, development, retention, and termination. You need to brain laws. But most companies are bad at this :P