The author of the article writes:

> You’re not the player, you’re the coach. Sometimes that means strategy and big-picture thinking. Sometimes it means shielding your team from dumb shit. Sometimes it means buying someone coffee and saying, “You’re not crazy. This is hard.”

Guess what good agile coaches or scrum masters are expected to do :-)

Off topic, but:

It's interesting how everyone thinks they're "managers" in "agile" teams.

Scrum Masters, Product Owners. I've even had Designers and QAs trying to make decisions on behalf of the team.

Leadership and Management are two pair of shoes, I get that.