One set of people management skills actually matters

All you really need to do is walk around and observe stuff.

Insofar as executives give a crap about managerial skills aside from "Does he/she make money," there is one set of people management skills that seems to matter more than anything. Well, yes -- the value of assigning context to the work, then ranking the work in order of priority -- those things are important.

Here, though, we're going to hit an entirely…