(I'm not going to count my time in academia) 1. One nightmare CEO in an early stage tech startup. 2. A dozen managers at Mozilla, which ranked from "should ha

(I'm not going to count my time in academia) 1. One nightmare CEO in an early stage tech startup. 2. A dozen managers at Mozilla, which ranked from "should have remained a dev" to "great managers". One of them was politically-minded, everybody else was truly attempting to make the team and the project work. 3. A few managers in a more recent tech startup, all of them good (albeit over-worked).