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Intelligence isn't really the yardstick here. How the person must think in their position is completely different between managers and employees. Managers are being constantly forced to see big picture, to delegate, to deal with overarching budgetary concerns that the average employee is not privy to nor responsible for upholding. If they are bogged down in hands-on minutiae, they will not be able to perform their job effectively. Employees under the managers are primarily responsible for details and execution.

This is what leads employees to think of managers as 'stupid' because they don't have immediate recall of all the details - they don't have to. That's your job, not theirs. They just need to ensure that the machine in general is running smoothly.

Emotional intelligence is also a factor that needs to be considered. Someone who is not very book smart can still win a managerial position because of who they know or how they make others feel at work - or they can pretend to be a supervisor and boss their coworkers around long enough to be promoted. I've seen both.
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essentially shizuo "eat your vitamins and say your prayers" heiwajima in an apron.