Comment by pc86

C-suite executives are "management" only insofar as they are someone's direct supervisor and that person wants to make them happy. And if you've got brand new managers with single-digit years of experience reporting to them, sure they probably do a fair bit of people management. But that's not the norm. If you're at a sufficiently large company you'll have Presidents reporting to the C-suite, 3-5+ levels of VPs below that, 1-3 levels of directors, and a level or two of individual contributors. So you're approaching double-digit numbers of people between C suite and the people who should theoretically actually need day-to-day performance management.

There is not a competent Executive Vice President or Division President in the world that needs to be managed by their boss.