Exceptionally Uncaught

In lots of ways, developers are like children - they play in their own world, they speak their own language and they spend their days dealing with make-believe. A good manager, much like a good parent, needs to make the dev think whatever they've just done is very clever and impressive. Even if the manager doesn't really get how it works - or even what it does.

So in other words, one of the best things a manager can do is say "That's great! Let's stick that up on the fridge!"