Main requirements these days to be a manager is to be a good spychophant. Just make sure you say a big YES to everything your boss says and be a part of the brown nosed brigade. Spend all day in meetings, emails, mind mapping, making pretty slides, and doing horsework for upper management.
These days it seems 80 % or so of the new managers are rather mediocre in terms of their technical skills. The reason they have gone into management is because they could not succeed in their technical careers and hence sought out management roles to get the quick and easy promotions.
These are the future " leaders" of Mother Mining. You know an industrial company is doomed to fail when majority of it's technical people have zero to little respect for their reporting managers.
@zbp+1fRuH9Vt said it really well.