““professional” management, they get stupid, bloated and ossified”
Mainly because management doesn’t know what it is that is being done. Quite frankly, managers are like daycare supervisors and companies at some point shoudl realize that management really isn’t needed if in fact the workers know what they’re doing. Do you really need a manager in a tech company, if the person knows code and is doing it correctly. The most successful companies always have a close relationship with the people who are doing the actual work, not supervising. Managers are in all honestly just nannies and people who are hired because they are too stupid to know how to do anything and are too stupid to create a company. I do not think that Steve needed anyone to successfully tell him how to run his business and how to code his programs. He didn’t need a manager keeping him on track.
I have a manager, but I probably talk to him once in a blue moon, I mainly deal with my users, and project managers