I suspect there is a fair amount of survivorship bias[1] in one's personal analysis of management. For me, the managers I can easily recall are the bad ones. Something about how anger makes a deeper mark in your memory than joy does.
> Something about how anger makes a deeper mark in your memory than joy does.
Uh? I thought that for most people, bad memories fade away and only good ones remain. And that's what I observed around me as well (I noted it because I seemed to be the only one in the group to remember bad memories linked to a certain period, while other guys only remembered the good ones and looked at this time through rose-tainted glasses and had totally forgotten about the whole lot of hardships we went through).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias