Stop promoting project managers to lead people
Just because you manage tasks and timelines well doesn't mean you're going to manage people well.
This happens a lot in white-collar work, and it usually doesn't end well. Here's the general bouncing ball:
What matters to the dudes at the top of a company is shit getting done; they want to know stuff is getting done so they can focus on the financials and what they care about.
As a result, a lot of those types of dudes come to love/revere project mana…
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