Ask HN: Hacking or management?

I currently work as a tech lead at a very large company outside the US. The product I'm in charge of has tens of thousands of users. The problem is that I manage a team of mediocre programmers and the engineering culture is terribly broken (cowboy coding, no tests, people don't care much about writing good code ie. no passion, etc). I feel bad for not learning more technical things lately (due to the lousy culture) but I also feel it might be a good thing to learn how to manage. My goal being to start a tech company eventually, I ask you: Is the skill of management transferable from a team of bad/average programmers to a team of good/great ones? I'm afraid I might be wasting my time here and should look for a job where I get to hang around smarter people and learn more technical stuff. PS: I don't think I have enough experience to get hired as a tech lead in charge of a strong team.