I'm afraid that in a lot of cases, particularly with dollar-chasers in startups, this involves becoming a different person. Some people are just bad managers.

I'm afraid that in a lot of cases, particularly with dollar-chasers in startups, this involves becoming a different person. Some people are just bad managers. It doesn't have to be that way, people can learn, but in any particular instance there can be the wrong specific person for any job that involves underlings at that stage of a company's growth, wherever it is. I'm not just talking about spergy devs getting Peter Principled into supervision, I mean founders/CxOs of any stripe. Extroverts, even! Citizenship and bedside manner can feel like disappearing arts sometimes.