operator > passionate practitioner > manager

Rambling thought process.

An operator knows where all the buttons are at temporal moment, follows direction, and require training to change. The practitioner pursues quality, understands their value, operate independently, and proactively adapts to operate in evolving discipline. The managerer/leader has the business acumen and objectivity to discern just because you can doesn't mean you should. The manager can intuitively transform an evolving vision into actions that practioners and operators believe in. I might come back to this post.