Obviously your age and experience have not prepared you for management. If you insist upon being a manager, develop an innate ability to read people, and pick them for their skills as well as their potential.
This is why managers are not hardcore code monkeys, but instead people handlers.
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There is an anime about this subject. It was award winning, and is partially available on Netflix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurren_Lagann
Obviously your age and experience have not prepared you for management. If you insist upon being a manager, develop an innate ability to read people, and pick them for their skills as well as their potential. This is why managers are not hardcore code monkeys, but instead people handlers.