Did you ever thought how average (dead wood) INTEL FLM manager thinks? You did not?! Really! Let me explain, since I carefully observe their behavior for years.
As they are carefully picked-up as real acquaintances and truly believers to INTEL as via social behavior (what a crap/false criteria), they are brought to numerous courses, where they are prepared how to manage ICs by Hocus Pocus, smoking mirrors, and sticks and ropes. TRUE HARD work is NOT their primary objective, their primary objective is how to average team output to better, and how to keep ICs (especially excellent one, who exceeds in all aspects) in bay/in cellar, not allowing them to wave, to be stars, to extrovert their excellence, since this might impact the team output, and depress bad performing ICs.
As such, they create a special strategy to each individual, mostly by the rule: the under performing ICs they encourage to take courses, to get more jobs, and to team with the best ICs in the team. They guide the average performing to take more charge. The best over performing ICs they try to put down, team with the under performing ICs, and they try to suppress any subjective success and personal feelings these ICs might have. In some/most cases they'll go with opposite strategies, and they try to suppress, limit, and NOT let these individuals think they are doing VERY well (even on focals they'll give sometimes SSL4s), since in opposite case these exceeding ICs will ask for MUCH more monies, they'll ask to be transferred to better groups... And they'll ask to claim grade after grade each focal!
Bad FLM and SLM INSIST on the "Team Work", and this does mean what I said: to average output of the team managed. To keep all problems in bay by one easy trick. "Solidarity"!
Despite that focal itself is built as such, to confront ICs in the team, to favor some individuals... Wrong ones (ones who leak FLM's boots)!
FLM talks at 1:1 with each IC different stories (for the very same context), tailored to the (imaginary) character of the individual. Thus, HR teach FLMs to be mostly psychologists, and at the end of this process FLMs think they are super humans (FLMs' morons do what HRs' [desperate housewives] idiots taught them).
It is done/crafted by HR so well (about psychology lessons), that every average INTEL FLM needs special institution at the end of the day, and team of psychiatrists to observe and handle/correct such a FLM's behavior.
INTEL culture, who is a culprit? YOU, ICs, always YOU (management is released of any liability)!
Time Will Tell