What to Learn
&gt; ... I would guess that a manager I think of as excellent is at least 99.9%-ile. How to find such a manager is a long discussion that I might turn into another post.<p>Please do! A lot of discussions regarding workplace morale, both here on HN and elsewhere, seem to boil down to &quot;your manager is very good&#x2F;bad and that explains everything else you mentioned&quot;. I tend to agree; having a good manager can make a huge positive difference and having a bad manager a huge negative one. However, I&#x27;d be very interested in better ways to detect managerial quality upfront rather than when it is already too late.