Employees have 0 responsibility or incentive to improve their managers (the converse is not true). In fact, it’s a terrible idea to do so, because there’s probably only single digit % of managers who would take that positively, if even.
Especially if it isn’t the manager taking the initiative to ask for improvement ideas.
It isn't? Whoever inherits the role will have the same issues, so how isn't swapping teams punting the issue to someone else?
> Employees have 0 responsibility or incentive to improve their managers (the converse is not true).
Employees have a responsibility to make sure their job gets done, and can (and should) identify obstructions to that happening.
> there’s probably only single digit % of managers who would take that positively, if even.
'Managing up' is a well-known and fairly common skill at large companies.
No, obviously not.
> Is your goal to ensure that there are absolutely no bad managers in a company the size of Spotify?
No, obviously not.
I believe the OPs goal was improve a specific failing manager. I think he didn't do this very well, but let's not straw man him.