Steve Jobs obviously didn't build Apple on his own; when he died, the company had approximately 40,000 employees. Since Jobs reportedly interacted with only about 100 employees, Apple naturally employed hundreds of managers. Here's Jobs, in 1985, on the early process of recruiting and hiring managers: We're going to be a big company, we thought. So let's hire "professional managers." We went out and hired a bunch of professional management, and it didn't work at all. They knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything.
