No one ever accused the MBA toting managers of being tech savvy .. or smart, for that matter. /s Sarcasm aside, in my experience, most managers do not understa

No one ever accused the MBA toting managers of being tech savvy .. or smart, for that matter. /s Sarcasm aside, in my experience, most managers do not understand technology even at a high level. Even the ones who come from a tech background often don’t bother to keep up. The typical mentality being, “I don’t know and I don’t want to know. Get someone from <insert tech department name here> to handle it.” When the <insert tech department name here> does come up with a solution, it is usually shot down if there is even the slightest hint of risk involved. And there usually is — any disruptive change — as all invocations tend to be — inherently carry a certain amount of risk. Even Steve Jobs was unable to convince the record labels to allow them to sell DRM free music via iTines until Apple had grown too big for them to go against — at least as far as music business was concerned. Basically, the only things the so called managers are good at are passing around the blame and covering their asses. Way too many companies have been destroyed or are a shell of their former glory - having missed major opportunities because the management was not willing to deal with the risks associated with innovation — because they were content to milk their cash cow till it was dead — while laughing at deficiencies of the more innovative competitors’ version 1.0 products. The real managers — the people who know what they are doing — go on to found successful tech companies.