>>> Managers should be planners, resource allocators and stakeholder communicators. They should work to bring their team into alignment with their org's goals and their company's goals.

But there are either better ways to do these things, or they still require coercive (supervisory) activity.

So planning. yeah it's important. Have a clear goal and work out what you need to achieve it. Frankly the new intern can achieve most of that in one day, and all the senior team can easily do it. And prioritise it. The hard part is where you have multiple parts in parallel. Sometimes people think they are some Moriarty style genius who can direct each part to develop and land with precision six months in the future. Total bill ox. If you aren't doing daily integrations you aren't co-ordinating and so you aren't "planning".

Yeah there is a function of logistics - but that's spreadsheets and gaming out scenarios - not a "management task" but certainly a "management input" - and if instead of giving it solely to managers you just published it to the whole org such logistics would be available to increase discussion and awareness (ie the workers would understand the plan better and not need managers)

Resource allocators - pretty much as above - plans, resource budget all different sides of same coin.

Aligning goals ... that's incentives. That's easy - pay me. Otherwise ... looks a lot like coercion.