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Your manager is not the expert in the thing that you're working on. They may be used to be the expert. Now that you're the one working on it every day, day in and day out, you're the expert. I manage a team of product managers and when I first started in a management position, I thought that being good at my job meant bringing the expertise. I've since learned that that's not my job. My job is to bring context. I work across eight teams. There's no way I can be an expert more so than the person working on that team for eight different teams. My job is to bring them context from all the other teams and from leadership. I work broadly, they work specifically and when we work together like that, good things happen. Once that clicked for me that I don't need to be the expert in the thing that they're working on, I need to bring them all the context and information from everywhere else in the business and then bring principles of working that will help them. Once that clicked and I started approaching it that way, I feel like that's when I became actually helpful to the people that I manage.