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Why 90% of Managers Are GARBAGE (The Professional Lie) | Steve Jobs

Evan Carmichael · 4.6M views · 2015-03-01 · 3:54

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Overview

A short clip of Steve Jobs arguing that the best people are self-managing and that professional managers who cannot do the work add little. He says leadership is about a shared vision.

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Cited in threads on management, hiring and company culture for Jobs's views on self-managing people and small, self-policing core teams.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2025

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ChrisCinelli · 2018-12 · Strong recommendation

Completely in agreement. Hire a bad leader when the company is growing and you risk one year later to have the whole company infested by all sort of people that you would not like to have around (managers included). Some companies completely screw up themselves because of this. Startups usually do not think about this early enough and when the founders realize what is going on is too late and the company culture is screwed. My favorite Steve Job's video on the subject: [VIDEO]

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mentos · 2017-12 · Recommendation

Steve Job's view on management shares similarities to what you have described and I think from my experience I agree with this outlook [VIDEO] "The greatest people are self managing, they don't need to be managed. Once they know what to do they will figure out how to do it. What they need is a common vision, and that's what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that, so the people around you can understand it, getting a consensus on a common vision." "We were in stage where we went out and thought, Oh! We are going to be a big company, so let's hire professional management. We went and hired a bunch of professional management but it didn't work out all well. Most of them were bozos, they knew how to manage but they didn't how to do anything!" "If you are a great person, why would you want to work with someone you can't learn anything from? You know what's interesting? You know who the best managers are? They are the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is gonna do a job as good as them"

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andai · 2025-10 · Reference

"The neatest thing that happens is, when you get a core croup of ten people, it becomes self policing, as to who they let into that group." —Steve Jobs [VIDEO]

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