Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers

Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by plint on Saturday December 03, 2022 @08:40PM (#33849637)

There's some game theoryish ideas such as the Peter Principle which might explain why meritocratic promotion may not work out in the long run for organizations.

See: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455, which won the parody Ig Nobel prize, but I don't really understand why, as I thought it was at least as interesting as Robert Axelrod's simulation of successful strategies in the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by AstralStorm on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:25AM (#33853943)

Peter Principle only applies to hierarchical organizations or ones where role changes are hard. Even if the depth of hierarchy is 2.

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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by plint on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:29PM (#33856230)

Aren't most organizations operating in the market hierarchical, and role changes difficult? Why did you say even if the depth of hierarchy is 2? In fact, the difficulty of role change could also be a parameter in model, like how Nicky Case models stuff in some of their things, for example: https://ncase.me/polygons/

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