I worked for someone like you at a previous job. As a power hungry middle-manager, you took the project in a ridiculous route and played both sides of the management fence to pin bad ideas on the team behind closed doors.
You said that you would much prefer to have 10 average to sub-par developers that would listen to every dumb idea you had then to have 3 brilliant people that might challenge your assumptions, but inevitably could get the project done faster and smarter and cheaper.
Because of you, the talent at said company is gone and the project is a year behind schedule.
And the word is, your days are limited.