Management is an engineering problem whether we want to admit it or not. It's about maximizing the potential of the people who are working for you. Designing a

Management is an engineering problem whether we want to admit it or not. It's about maximizing the potential of the people who are working for you. Designing a team is just as much of an engineering problem as building a large scale web service. People will argue and say, but humans are emotional, greedy etc. That to me just sounds like inputs to the optimization problem at hand. How do I get team member x, to produce y for me given that x1,x2,x3 factors? Some of the best executives were formerly great engineers. Engineering is as much a people discipline as it is a technical discipline. This author's article is all over the place and I think that they miss this point entirely. This author doesn't do a good job of actually defining what they think a "good" engineer is to begin with.