“Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matte

“Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matters.” Postscript: You misread me. I understand where Jobs was coming from better than you think. But maybe I’m not explaining myself well. .. When my old man retired, he was executive manager for a national power company overseeing distribution network. Senior leadership. But he started out as a junior line engineer freshly qualified from EE school, and over the following three decades worked his way up from that. (I still remember those early Christmas callouts: all the lights’d go out; and off into the night he would go, like Batman.:) And as he later always said to engineers under him, his job was to know enough engineering to manage them effectively, and their job was to be the experts at all the details and to always keep him right. And his engineers loved him for it. Not least ’cos that was a job where mistakes don’t just upset business and shut down chunks of the country, they cause closed-coffin funerals and legal inquests too. -- i.e. My old man was a bloody great manager because he was a damn good engineer to begin with. And while he could’ve been a happy engineer doing happy engineering things all his life he was determined to be far more, and worked his arse off to achieve it too. And that’s the kind of geek Steve Jobs was. Someone who could’ve easily lived within comfortable geeky limitations, but utterly refused to do so. ’Cos he wanted to shape the world. I doff my cap at that.