John Sculley on Project Management and small companies

Really good managers want to turn one-off projects into as much of a routine process as they can. I am a project-centric leader. I like to work on projects and solve tough problems. Whereas a really good manager will say, “How do we replicate the processes so that when a problem comes up like this again we can routinely solve it?”

Private companies are small and their only reason for being is to innovate. Large companies exist to scale, so middle managers are empowered to say “No,” but not to say “Yes.”

via John Sculley on Steve Jobs and the Experience of a Lifetime.

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