What are Some of the Top Traits a Content Manager Should Have?

Fellow Washington DC metro area blogger Kari Rippetoe, author of The Caffeinated Blog, recently asked me to provide some input with regard to this great question:

What are some of the top traits a content manager should have?
I know that "content manager" means different things for different companies; but what sort of fundamental skills, knowledge, and experience should a content manager have?

I sent Kari the full breadth of my response and she took the best of my blurbs and posted them, along with many other really insightful comments, on her blog. To view my complete, unedited response of what I had originally had shared with Kari, please click here.