Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs felt hiring professional management for the consumer tech giant when they wanted to expand and had plans to make it big “didn’t work at all”. ‘Hiring professional management didn’t work at all’ In a clip from 1985, speaking on the early recruitment process amid expansion plans for Apple, Steve Jobs said, “We went through that stage in Apple, where we went out and we thought, ‘oh, we’re going to be a big company, let’s hire professional management'. We went out and hired a bunch of professional management, and it didn’t work at all.”He explained, “Most of them were bozos. And so, if you're a great person why do you want to work for somebody you can't learn anything from?”Who are the best managers according to Steve Jobs? Explaining who makes the best managers, Jobs noted, “You know what's interesting?

Source: Mint February 16, 2026 09:47 UTC