There’s a certain type of manager you meet early in your career who teaches you something important, not through their brilliance, but through their absence of it. In my first SaaS role, over five and a half years, I cycled through a handful of managers. All different. All memorable for different reasons. But one sticks out because she was genuinely lovely, warm, positive, thoughtful, the kind of leader who asked how your weekend was and actually cared about the answer. She w