> even today, we are incredibly bad at managing [...] brilliant people That is an important question, and unfortunately, I haven't seen lots of books on that t

> even today, we are incredibly bad at managing [...] brilliant people That is an important question, and unfortunately, I haven't seen lots of books on that topic. Except maybe "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers" by J. Hank Rainwater: http://books.google.de/books/about/Herding_Cats.html?id=9xFPAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y http://books.google.de/books/about/Herding_Cats.html?id=9xFP... (This is not so much about "brilliant" people, but about creative people - especially good programmers - in general.)