Steve Jobs' surprising take on what makes great tech managers
New insights from Apple's founder reveal why he believed reluctant leaders often make the best managers, especially in fast-growing tech companies.
Steve Jobs learned the hard way that hiring "professional managers" wasn't the answer to scaling Apple. Instead, he found that the best leaders were often those who never wanted the job in the first place.
"You know who the best managers are. They're 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 going to be able to do as good a job as that," Jobs said in a recently surfaced 1980s interview.