THE VIDEO SHELF · management and leadership
Why 90% of Managers Are GARBAGE (The Professional Lie) | Steve Jobs
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in threads on management, hiring and company culture for Jobs's views on self-managing people and small, self-policing core teams.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Evan Carmichael
- Topic
- management and leadership
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
ChrisCinelli on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Guide to scaling engineering organizationsSteve 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 …
mentos on Hacker News · 2017-12
In Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)
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