I think that the "politics and strategy" level is over-played. It exists, but it is not essential to the creation of a product - it is a consequence of the creation of an organisation to create the product.
At a senior senior level, the focus should be on un-creating the organisation so people can focus on building the product. Stack-ranking in companies is brutal but might be kept alive because it forces re-creation of the organisation as 10% of it vanishes each year...
I think that separating "management" as something to do with navigating social politics as a separate skill is taking something humans do every day at the school gate or the football field and claiming it has special status - it gets more vicious and more consequential because of the money involved yes, so perhaps having specialists is a good idea, but from an organisational design standpoint it seems sub optimal
At a senior senior level, the focus should be on un-creating the organisation so people can focus on building the product. Stack-ranking in companies is brutal but might be kept alive because it forces re-creation of the organisation as 10% of it vanishes each year...
I think that separating "management" as something to do with navigating social politics as a separate skill is taking something humans do every day at the school gate or the football field and claiming it has special status - it gets more vicious and more consequential because of the money involved yes, so perhaps having specialists is a good idea, but from an organisational design standpoint it seems sub optimal