As a manager, having a bunch of naive hardworking employees under you is a lot better than having skilled but knowledgeable workers. The problem with the latter

As a manager, having a bunch of naive hardworking employees under you is a lot better than having skilled but knowledgeable workers. The problem with the latter is they can seem to know more than you do at meetings, lead teams themselves, and become your competition for managerial roles after they've been around for awhile. Better to hire the social inept, easily manipulatable young guy, than your future competitor for your very own job.